Operating System Deployment to Bare-Metal Systems
When choosing to deploy an operating system to a bare-metal system, all you need is the operating system media, the correct product key, and the supporting driver disks for your hardware. In today’s computer and network infrastructure, many workstations come with operating systems preinstalled, and servers usually contain vendor-specific installation disks that not only deploy the operating system, but also install vendor-specific drivers, services, and applications specific to the particular server hardware. Deploying operating systems to bare-metal systems, or systems with no existing operating system, is still a common scenario when organizations want to ensure that a very clean, unmodified ...
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