Cristie Bare Machine Recovery

WDS Network Boot Setup Guide

For Windows

July 2011

Version 6.3

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Contents

1 Introduction 4
1.1 Overview
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2 WDS Server 5
2.1 Prerequisites
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2.2 Adding
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the CBMR boot image to a WDS Server 5
2.3 Boot
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the CBMR WinPE 2 client from the WDS Server 8

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1 Introduction
This document gives an overview of how to setup the Windows PE based DR environment for CBMR
so that it can be network booted from a WDS server; it is not intended to be a fully instructional
guide for the process of installing WDS, or any advanced options thereof. For information relating to
this, you should consult the Microsoft installation guides which can be found at http://www.
microsoft.com.

In addition, this document assumes you have a working WDS server already running. If you do not,
you should consult the Microsoft documentation in order to install and configure your WDS server.

1.1 Overview
WinPE 2 is based on Windows Server 2008, Vista, and Windows 7 technology and should be used
for recovery of those operating systems.

Note: the scenario for the WDS Server, using WinPE 2, used in this document was created using
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2. Note that using WDS is exactly the
same in this version of Windows as it is in later versions of Windows Server (ie. 2008R2).

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2 WDS Server
As stated earlier, the scenario for the WDS Server used in this document was created using
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2.

2.1 Prerequisites
AD DS - a Windows Deployment Services server must be either a member of an Active Directory
Deployment Service domain or a domain controller for an AD DS domain. The AD DS domain and
forest versions are irrelevant; all domain and forest configurations support Windows Deployment
Services.

DHCP - you must have a working DHCP server with an active scope on the network because
Windows Deployment Services uses PXE, which relies on DHCP for IP addressing.

DNS - you must have a working DNS server on the network before you can run Windows
Deployment Services.

NTFS volume - the server running Windows Deployment Services requires an NTFS file system
volume for the image store.

Credentials - to install the role, you must be a member of the Local Adminstrators group on the
server. To initialise the server, you must be a member of the Domain Users group.

Boot & Install Images - before you can deploy a CBMR image, you must have at least one Boot
Image and one Install Image installed. To achieve this, install the default images provided on the
installation CD for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Ensure the client machine has at least 1024MB of RAM which is the minimum amount of RAM for
booting a CBMR DR image.

2.2 Adding the CBMR boot image to a WDS Server

Open the WDS console in your Windows Server and right click on Boot Images. Select ‘Add boot
image’ from the menu.

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At this point, ensure that your CBMR CD is inserted into the CD/DVD drive, or is accessible via a
network connection. Click on the Browse button and navigate to the SOURCES folder on the root of the
CD.

Select the BOOT.WIM file and click Open.

Click Next when the correct path appears.

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Click Next to confirm the name and description of the image.

Review the information and click Next to continue.

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The image will now copy on to the WDS server. When this has completed, click Finish.

The CBMR image will now appear in the WDS console.

2.3 Boot the CBMR WinPE 2 client from the WDS Server
This section describes how to boot the CBMR DR WinPE 2 console on a computer that contains a
network adapter that supports PXE DHCP-based boot ROM.

Make sure that the network adapter is set as the primary boot device in the computer BIOS.

Restart the client computer from the network adapter.

When you are prompted to do so, press F12 to start the download of the Client Installation
Wizard.

You will then be presented with the image menu. Select ‘CBMR 6.3 DR Console'.

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The boot image will now load. You will see the IP address of the WDS server from which the image
is loading in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.

When the download completes, the CBMR DR Console will start.

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Once you have agreed to the licencing terms, you can start the recovery as normal. Refer to the
product user guide for licencing details.

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If you have any queries or problems concerning your Cristie Bare Machine Recovery product, please
contact Cristie Technical Support. To assist us in helping with your enquiry, make sure you have
the following information available for the person dealing with your call:

CBMR Version Number

Windows OS and Version Number
Any error message information (if appropriate)
Description of when the error occurs

Contact Numbers - Cristie Software (UK) Limited

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