Using ImageUltra Builder - IBM Redbooks

There are five main steps to creating a base operating system module based on a
portable-sysprep image:
1. Make the IBM Customization Program accessible to the source computer
2. Create the portable-sysprep image on a source computer and create the image files
3. Add the portable-sysprep image to the ImageUltra Builder Repository
4. Setting the module attributes
5. Building the module from the image files
1.16.1 Installing the IBM Customization Program
Before you can create a portable-sysprep image, you must first make the IBM Customization
Program (IBMCP.EXE) accessible to the source computer. The ImageUltra Builder program
enables you to copy the IBM Customization Program on a diskette, shared drive, or any other
media to which the ImageUltra console has direct-write access.
1. Use Windows Explorer or My Computer to open the IBMCP folder in your repository.
Tip: If you cannot remember the path to your repository, in the ImageUltra Builder Main
window, click File and then click Open repository. The repository paths will be listed.
You can use any repository.
2. Copy the IBMCP.EXE program to a diskette or to a shared drive that the source computer
can access during the development of the image. If you use a diskette, label the diskette
ImageUltra IBM Customization Program.
3. Do one of the following:
a. Provide an ImageUltra IBM Customization Program diskette to any personnel
responsible for creating portable-sysprep images
b. Provide the path to the IBMCP.EXE program to any personnel responsible for creating
portable-sysprep images.
1.16.2 Create the portable-sysprep image on a source computer
Before you begin, make sure you put the IBM Customization Program either on portable
media that is compatible with the source computer or a shared drive that the source computer
is able to access after the operating system and other programs have been installed. See
1.16.1, “Installing the IBM Customization Program” on page 55” for more information.
To create and prepare portable-sysprep image source files, do the following:
1. On a source computer, use MS-DOS to format the hard disk as follows.
Note: You must use an MS-DOS diskette for this step. Do not use Windows or PC-DOS
to partition or format the hard disk. You can create an MS-DOS diskette from Windows
98, but be sure to also copy the FORMAT.COM and FDISK.EXE programs on the
diskette.
Insert the MS-DOS diskette into the source computer diskette drive and restart the
computer.
2. Run FDISK.EXE and create a FAT32 primary partition. In most cases, you will want to use
the entire hard disk except for the service partition.
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