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Creating a Preboot Bootable Image
You can create a PXE Linux configuration file that points to a Preboot Bootable Image (PBI) file,
which is a raw image of a bootable diskette. This enables you to use PXE to utilize the bootable
diskette information from a
.pbi
file on a TFTP server, instead of booting from the diskette for that
Preboot information.
To create a PBI configuration file and then the PBI file:
1 On a Windows device, browse to the
opt/novell/zenworks/zdm/winutils
directory on
your Linux imaging server and run
zmediacreator.exe
.
You might need to configure Samba on the Linux server in order for the Windows device to
have access to this directory.
The following dialog box is displayed after you click the
Preboot Bootable Image tab:
2 In the Configuration File Settings section on the Preboot Bootable Image page, fill in the fields:
Kernel Parameters: To use the kernel parameters in the keeppxe option, select the Keep PXE
and UNDI Stacks in Memory option.
PBI Filename: Specify a filename for the PBI file, including the
.pbi
filename extension. Do
not specify a path here.
TFTP Relative Path: Enter the path for the PBI file, relative to the TFTP server’s default path.
This is where the PBI file will be accessed by the device booting with PXE.
Load: Load a previously defined PBI configuration file, which populates the fields on this
page with its information. You can edit those settings.