Dell OptiPlex VDI Blaster Edition User manual

Dell OptiPlex

FX130 and FX170

Re-Imaging Guide

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE:

A NOTE indicates important informationthat helps you make betteruseof your

thinclient.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data

if instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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Dell Inc. Devon IT, the Devon IT logo, Devon IT Echo™ Thin Client Management

Software, and VDI Blaster™ are registered trademarks of Devon IT Inc. in the U.S. and

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Contents

How to Write Disk Images to Dell OptiPlex FX130 and

FX170Thin Clients..........................................................................4

Step 1: Creating the Re-Imaging Utility on a USB Flash Drive or

CD/DVD....................................................................................................4

Step 2: Retrieving the Disk Images...........................................................5

Step 3: Using the Re-Imaging Utility to Write the Disk Image to the

Thin Client................................................................................................6

Final Steps .............................................................................................12

Using the Re-Imaging Utility to Clone the Disk Images...........................12

Updating the Re-Imaging Utility to Update a BIOS on the Thin Client.....13

Other Uses of the Re-Imaging Utility ......................................................15

Getting Help..................................................................................18

Contacting Dell.......................................................................................18

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How to Write Disk Images to

Dell OptiPlex FX130 and FX170

Thin Clients

This document describes how to create a re-imaged utility on a USB Flash

drive or CD/DVD and use it to write a disk image to your Dell OptiPlex

FX130 and FX170 thin clients.

The following hardware is required:

Windows or Linux system with access to the Internet

USB Flash drive with at least 2 GB of storage

Dell OptiPlex FX130 or FX170 thin client

Step 1: Creating the Re-Imaging Utility on a

USB Flash Drive or CD/DVD

The re-imaging utility is distributed as an ISO image. This ISO can be

used to create a bootable CD or USB key using third-party media

creation tools. After downloading the ISO, follow the instructions for

your media creation tool.

To download the Devon IT Re-Imaging Utility Dell Edition ISO, visit

support.dell.com

and navigate to the OptiPlex FX130 or FX170 pages.

NOTE:

The same Devon IT Re-Imaging Utility Dell Editiontool is used to download

Devon IT (DeTOS) Dell Edition, (WES2009), orWES7Operating Systems.

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Step 2: Retrieving the Disk Images

Visit

support.dell.com

to locate and download the latest operating

system image to re-image your OptiPlex FX130 or FX170 thin clients.

The OS disk images can be found on the product support pages.

The IT Re-Imaging Utility offers three ways to write the disk image. The

first option is to copy the disk image to a USB Flash drive or a

rewriteable CD/DVD. You can copy at least one disk image on your

flash drive if its capacity is at least 2 GB. The other two options involve

copying the disk image to an NFS or Windows share on your local area

network.

Option A: Saving the Disk Image(s) Locally to the USB Flash

Drive or a CD/DVD

To save the disk image to your Re-Imaging Utility drive:

Create a folder at the root of the USB drive called

Images

Copy the disk image(s) into that directory.

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Option B: Storing the Disk Image(s) on a Network Share

Copy the disk image(s) to a Windows shared drive or NFS mounted

directory. The screenshot below shows an example of how to copy a disk

image to a Windows network drive called WES images.

Step 3: Using the Re-Imaging Utility to

Write the Disk Image to the Thin Client

Plug the USB key or a CD/DVD drive with Re-Imaging Utility into the thin

client. To run the Re-Imaging Utility, you must ensure that your thin client is

set to boot from the USB flash drive or CD/DVD drive instead of the

internal drive.

To re-image the OptiPlex 130 and OptiPlex 170 using a USB flash drive:

Press <F12> during bootup to access the system boot menu.

Select the option named

Hard Disk

(or the name of your flash

drive) and press <Enter>.

Select the second option called

USB-HDD0

and press <Enter>.

You will see a menu with an option called

Default

selected.

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Press <Enter> or wait 10 seconds to continue. A splash screen will

appear and a blue progress bar will display as the re-imaging utility

begins to load.

After the bootup is complete the Devon IT Re-Imaging Utility Dell Edition

Main Menu

is displayed.

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Use the arrow keys to select an option that corresponds to the way you saved

your disk image.

If you copied your disk image directly to the USB flash drive or

CD/DVD itself, then select <1> and press <Enter>.

If you copied your disk image to an NFS mounted directory, then

select <2> and press <Enter>.

If you copied your disk image to Windows Network drive, then

select <3> and press <Enter>.

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Specific Instructions for Option 1: Writing the local image from

USB

A list of available disk images found on the local USB drive or

CD/DVD is displayed. Select the appropriate disk image file for

the thin client you are re-imaging.

Press <Enter> to flash the terminal with the selected image.

The message

Writing image to disk

is displayed, along

with a progress bar showing the current status of the reimaging

process. Do not turn off your thin client at this time.

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Specific Instructions for Options 2 and 3 –Writing the Image

from an NFS Mount or Windows Server

Enter the base location of the network share and press <Enter>.

For example, if you store your disk image on a Windows network

drive named

images

located on a server with an IP address of

10.0.5.12

then type:

//10.0.5.12/images.

Enter a valid username and press <Enter>.

Enter the password for this user. Press <Enter> to continue.

If you use a Windows Share, then you are prompted to enter the

domain name.

Once a connection has been established, a list of available disk

images found on the network drive is displayed.

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