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How to Create and Deploy OS Images using a Linux-Based Boot Image › Deploy an OS Using the Linux-Based Boot Image

Deploy an OS Using the Linux-Based Boot Image

To perform an unattended installation of the OS, activate the OS deployment on the target computer.

Follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to DSM Explorer, Computers and Users, All Computers and find the target computer on which you want to deploy the OS.
  2. Right-click the computer and select OS Installation.

    The OS Installation wizard opens.

  3. Follow the instructions in the wizard and click Finish on the last page.

    An OS deployment job is created and the deployment status is displayed in the Computers and Users, All Computers, Group Details, and OS Installations node.

OS is deployed using the Linux-based boot image.

Note: The disk (either local or remote) being used for OS deployment must be the first disk in the boot sequence among all the available bootable disks (disks holding any bootable OS or bootable media).

Client Automation supports the installation of RHEL 5.x and 6.x OS on the first local disk only and this disk must be the first disk in the BIOS boot sequence.