About advanced Create Image options

The Advanced option on the Create Image task lets you configure additional options.

You can choose several other options while creating this task.

Table: Advanced Create Image options

Option

Description

Media

Determines at what point an image file is split into multiple files.

When you use Ghost imaging tool to create image over network such as HTTP or mapped path of Package Server or SMP, the maximum span size is 1.99 GB that refers to the zero split value. Otherwise, the split value that you entered is considered as the maximum file size. If the split value is less than 2 GB, the spans of the requested size are created. For IIS Web servers, by default, spans of 2 GB are created. For the servers that are not IIS Web servers, by default the split size is unlimited. If you specify the split size as 0 or -, then no spans are created. Only a single image is created on the Web server.

In case you are aware of any upload file size limit, you must specify that as maximum file size.

Command-line

Lets you add command-line options for the imaging tool.

HTTP

Lets you upload and download images through HTTP Web server.

You need to set up the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager to get HTTP imaging to work. Otherwise, if you try to use HTTP with the Create Image task, the job fails and returns a message that the file could not be created.

For more information on setting up the Web server in IIS:

www.symantec.com/business/support/

For Ghost imaging tool, add the following Mime type:

  • File Name Extension: .gho and MIME Type: application/octet-stream

  • File Name Extension: .ghs and MIME Type: application/octet-stream

Ghost tool supports the HTTP Web server configured on Windows 2008 IIS 7.5 and on Windows 2003 server IIS 6.0.

See Creating a Mac image.

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