5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012.
7.2 Creating a bootable media ......................................................................................................58
7.2.1 Creating an Acronis bootable media .........................................................................................................59
7.2.2 Creating a WinPE-based bootable media ..................................................................................................62
7.3 Configuring Acronis PXE Server ...............................................................................................65
8 Creating a master image ........................................................................................................ 67
8.1 Preparation of the master operating system ..........................................................................67
8.2 Online vs. offline imaging ........................................................................................................67
8.3 Performing online imaging ......................................................................................................68
8.4 Performing offline imaging ......................................................................................................68
8.5 Steps of the Master Image Creator wizard ..............................................................................71
8.5.1 Disks or volumes to image .........................................................................................................................71
8.5.2 Image name and location ...........................................................................................................................72
8.5.3 Options of imaging .....................................................................................................................................73
8.5.4 Comments and summary ...........................................................................................................................76
9 Validating a master image ..................................................................................................... 78
10 Deploying a master image ..................................................................................................... 79
10.1 Files supported as master images ...........................................................................................79
10.2 Licenses for deployment ..........................................................................................................80
10.3 Deployment templates ............................................................................................................80
10.3.1 Creating a deployment template ...............................................................................................................80
10.3.2 Configuring default deployment settings ..................................................................................................98
10.3.3 Managing deployment templates .............................................................................................................99
10.4 Deployment through a deployment task .................................................................................99
10.4.1 Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................................ 100
10.4.2 Deployment to specific machines ........................................................................................................... 100
10.4.3 Deployment to any ready machines ....................................................................................................... 106
10.4.4 Booting the target machines ................................................................................................................... 107
10.4.5 Operations with deployment tasks ......................................................................................................... 111
10.4.6 Deployment behind an NAT device ........................................................................................................ 111
10.5 Stand-alone deployment ...................................................................................................... 112
10.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment) ................................................................ 113
10.6.1 Understanding user-initiated deployment ............................................................................................. 113
10.6.2 Considerations when using a PXE server ................................................................................................ 115
10.6.3 Setting up the user-initiated deployment mode .................................................................................... 115
10.6.4 Changing parameters of the user-initiated deployment mode ............................................................. 118
10.6.5 Switching off the user-initiated deployment mode ............................................................................... 118
10.7 BIOS-based systems to UEFI-based and vice versa ............................................................... 119
10.7.1 Deploying volumes .................................................................................................................................. 119
10.7.2 Deploying disks ........................................................................................................................................ 120
10.8 Bootability troubleshooting .................................................................................................. 122
10.8.1 How to reactivate GRUB and change its configuration .......................................................................... 124
10.8.2 How to reactivate LILO ............................................................................................................................ 125
10.8.3 About Windows loaders .......................................................................................................................... 125
11 Managing the list of machines (the Machines view) ............................................................. 126
11.1 Adding machines................................................................................................................... 126
