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| Advanced Win2K Pro Imaging Question |
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.120) at Thursday, August 29, 2002 03:43:54 PM |
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We are looking into a way to make our imaging more efficient across the many different designed machines that we use. They are of the same manufacturer, IBM, but the internal hardware changes more often than your underwear, which makes keeping updated images difficult. Especially when you are imaging for 4 or 5 different Laptop models at a time.
Of course we've used SysPrep and Ghost to prepare out images to this point, but we would like to make things more efficient by having one image cover as many different machines as possible to cut down on CD count. Of course, this causes us hardware enumeration problems with some machines because the hardware and drivers may be different from one machine to the next. What we are looking in to is having a Sysprepped image that has had the hardware/driver enumeration stripped from it. In other words, we want the hardware to be enumerated, and the drivers installed, AFTER the image is applied to the target machine. I thought is to include the necessary .INF files and drivers in the image in the appropriate places so the enumeration (Plug & Play, if you will) phase can run smoothly with as little attention as possible. Is this even possible? Are there any specific utilities available to make this easy, or at least easier? Thanks :) TL |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.132) at Wednesday, September 18, 2002 08:22:37 AM |
| Thanks for the info MHouse. I also understand there are issues if the HAL changes between machines. Since most everything runs the ACPI HAL these days that, hopefully, will not be an issue. Thanks! TL [QUOTE]Originally Posted by MHouse: I totally agree with Andy and I only have a little bit to add. The 'regardless of the platform being imaged' is slightly inaccurate. If your power management layer is different from one machine to another, you will have to create a seperate master image. You shouldn't have to worry about this on newer machines, but I've got a couple of old P166's around here that are just barely running Win2k and they needed a seperate master. I would also recommend adding the -pnp switch to sysprep for full hardware enumeration if you are using older hardware. Aside from that, that's all the bases that I know to cover! ~Matt [/QUOTE] |
