Reinstalling the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition

This section describes the process for reinstalling the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition.

About this task

The Toolkit has three components:
  1. The IBM Pre-boot environment
  2. The IBM Scripting Toolkit scripts and utilities
  3. The IBM Scripting Toolkit Altiris jobs within the Altiris Deployment Solution console

When you install or reinstall the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition for Altiris Deployment Solution, these components are updated as a group. After the update, the Altiris Deployment Solution jobs associated with the previous version of the ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition for Altiris Deployment Solution will no longer work.

Procedure

To reinstall the Toolkit, follow these steps:

  1. Follow the instructions from ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit installation methods that apply to your method of installation.
  2. The installer displays the following message to indicate that a previous installation has been detected:
    The following installed items were detected:
    
    IBM Windows PE Toolkit, Windows Edition 2.1
    
    This must be uninstalled before this process can continue. Please select
    an option below:
    
    1) Exit The Reinstaller.
    2) Automatically Reinstall The Scripting Toolkit, Windows Edition.
    
    Select an above option: 
  3. Select either option 1 or option 2:
    • To exit the current installation process, select option 1. You can manually remove the previous installation of the toolkit, and then install the new toolkit.
    • To automatically remove your previous installation of the toolkit and reinstall the new toolkit, select option 2.