Run Deploy Anywhere manually from a Ghost boot ISO USB Stick etc.

Products

• Ghost Solution Suite

Issue/Introduction

You wish to run Deploy Anywhere manually from a Ghost BootDISK from ISO to USB Stick

Environment

GSS 3.3 RU10 +

Resolution

The simplified process is as follows:

Note: When you boot a system from a Ghost Windows PE USB Boot disk, it will mount the 
Boot Disk itself as drive D: (or other depending on the number of disks and partitions present on the system). The RAM drive is mounted as drive X:.

1. Create a new bootable Ghost ISO as follows:
   1. Ensure that the WinPE-10 or 11 image is used.
   2. Copy the DriversDB to the created USB bootdisk ( in this case to the root of the drive )
   3. Select "Include Deploy Anywhere Driver Database with the image"
2. Restore the image using Ghost.
3. Exit Ghost but do not reboot.
4. Establish which drive is the USB Boot Disk, and that it contains a "DriverDB" directory.
   1. Using Ghost to view mounted drives.
   2. By checking C:, D: and other drives.
   3. Using Diskpart > "List Volumes".
5. Go to X:\Ghost.
6. To check the correct drivers are present, run "DeployAnywherex64 /target=C:\windows /ddb=D:\DriversDB  /eval" where C: is the newly restored image volume and D: is the BootDisk.
7. If drivers are present, run "DeployAnywherex64 /target=C:\windows /ddb=D:\DriversDB /handleNonCriticalDrivers=minisetup /byPassDrvVali=ALL /notUseLeagacyDriverInstaller".
8. Reboot the system.
9. It will take some time to run a customized sysprep process and will reboot before becoming available.

Here is a list of available parameters for DeployAnywhere: Switches Used with DeployAnywhere