Easy Re-Imaging with Linux
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Submitted by Pikoshi on 3 October, 2008 - 11:06.
I recently had a coworker who wanted an easy way to reimage a machine while at the machine. Since we use HII, I needed to find a way that he could select the whole job since it includes driver injection based on the computer model. Upon investigation, I found an option within the Linux Pre Boot environment.
The Linux agent portion of the preboot environment has a parameter called FORCE_NEW. By default this is set to false. If you set it to new, every time a computer boots to this pre boot environment, it will be treated as a new computer and automatically go to the initial deployment screen.
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It would be better to add an additional boot menu option that had this FORCE_new option turned on, and call something like REIMAGE PC NOW. This allows someone the ability while at the workstation to re-image right now but have to make a specific choice versus change the default behavior of the normal preboot environment, this allows for less of chance of a user or anyone accidentally re-image their PC, especially if you you are not taking care of the backing up data before blowing away their pc.
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