Acronis Snap Deploy 4 - User Guide - Manual (Page 114)

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3. Configure the master system.
4. Boot the master system into Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Master Image Creator. Create an image of
the master system and save it to a network folder, detachable media, or removable media. You
should not save the image to an internal hard disk of the target machine, because it cannot be
accessed during the stand-alone deployment.
5. Boot the target machine into Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility.
6. If you saved the master image to a media, attach or insert the media.
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 Standalone Utility can deploy an image located:
 In a network folder.
 On a USB or FireWire (IEEE-1394) storage device (such as a flash drive) attached to the target
machine.
 On DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, or recordable Blu-ray Discs (BD-R, BD-RE) loaded in
the target machine’s media drive.
The image created on removable media has to fit into one media disk. To deploy an image spread
over several CDs, DVDs or other media, copy all parts of the image to the same folder on an
external drive or to a network folder.
7. Configure the deployment operation as described in “Creating a deployment template” (p. 81).
Note that the template cannot be saved because the stand-alone utility does not access Acronis
Snap Deploy 4 OS Deploy Server.
8. Review the deployment settings, and then start the stand-alone deployment.
10.6 User-initiated deployment (custom deployment)
Acronis Snap Deploy 4 can be configured in such a way that users will be able to deploy and re-
deploy their machines with one click on the boot menu.
User-initiated deployment is also called custom deployment.
10.6.1 Understanding user-initiated deployment
An administrator creates a set of deployment templates (p. 81) that meet the organization’s needs
and assigns to each template a name that can be easily understood by a user.
The administrator creates an Acronis bootable media with these templates or uploads these
templates to a PXE server. The administrator then switches on the user-initiated deployment mode.