RIS + Packages

[NFI]

Hiya,

does anybody know if it's possible to get the Remote Installation Service to install applications as well as the OS?

I'd really like to put down Office from my RIS server, but I'm not sure how to go about it...


thanks,

Paul

 

[kmkeshav]

You can consider using the RIPrep feature of RIS to deploy OS and applications. It is actually an image based deployment. It works this way:

1. Configure a computer with OS and required applications.

2. Make an image of the hard drive partition that holds the installation.

3. Upload this image to a RIS server.

4. New computers will pull this image from the RIS server.

I recommend you to test your requirement before you start the deployment in the production environment. We had to struggle a lot to acheive this. I will try to recall what we did.

Post back if you have more questions.

-Keshav

 

[NFI]

Hiya,

thanks for that - I've set up a network-installation based system before, where the install packages are on a shared drive and they are basically called from the client by a .cmd script. When RIS installs the OS to the client machine, does it do it by actually installing it or does it image it?

Thanks for your help,

Paul

 

[kmkeshav]

It is based on the type of image you select to install on the client from the list of available images in the RIS server. You can have two types of images:

1. CD based image.
2. RIPrep image.

CD based image is nothing but the copy of the OS CD and the second one is what I explained in my previous reply (an image of the harddisk partition that has OS and applications installated).

Selecting the CD based image for installation is like installing using a CD, and the second one is the image copy.

-Keshav