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How can i put 2 splited images with the same name in same folder?
They don't have the same name, one is *1.swm and the other is *2.swm
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I believe the problem is on the PDC, but I am stumped at this point.
What does the event viewer say? Post your logs from dns server manager
Is your network being choked by high levels of traffic?
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I'm quite happy with my vlited Vista SP1 on eeePC
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We tested lots of drivers , they never failed here.
maybe you are doing sommething wrong.
Actually I am doing something wrong, I am bypassing msiexec and the TrustedInstaller in order to componentize my stuff (let's call it unorthodox slipstreaming). If VMware can do it, why can't I ?
Anyways, there are some pieces of software that break sysprep due to poor architectural vision, and that makes me very sad. The very reason for me to go over MS installers.
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Anyway, I dig through the log file and I find several lines referencing "CheckIfWpdPresent" and failing because it comes back "0" instead of 1, so it intentionally halts. What the heck is WPD? I don't recognize that acronym from anything I've seen. And is it restorable? I'm not exactly hot on the idea of reinstalling Vista again... although it only took 15 minutes off a USB stick
WPD is "Windows Portable Device" Driver Model. Try to manually reinstall the Mobile Device Center from here
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hello
in Nlite i can combine the drivers into a single .cab to speed installations also reduce comperssion to make the unpacking faster and i can disable SFC which speed windows during installations .. why no such functions in Vlite?
that's all and thank you for this wonderful program
best of lucks
peace
1) CABs are no longer used for driver storage. It's faster to install drivers from a uncompressed file repository
2) What you call "windows installation" is actually a straightforward wim decompression onto a target partition, followed by the last stage of a sysprep (mini-setup). Its only real bottleneck is the linear read speed of the medium containing the WIM.
2) Reducing compression would actually increase install time in some conditions. A larger WIM would take more time to read from a DVD.
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Well its possible but i dont think you like what comes out of this little experiment.Its possible to force install on 256MB machines trough vlite tweak.The culprit in this case will be CPU speed(800Mhz single core reccommended at least) and graphics...2MB is not enough even for classic.Besides finding drivers to back it all up...hell i say.Good youre not gonna try this.
How about Windows Server 2008 Core ?
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what do you mean exactly ?
Make a batch script with a FOR in it to execute the same sequences for each image (what you do between mountrw and unmount+commit)
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Hi
i use acronis trueimage with a recovery partition on my c drive on boot up if i want to relaod windows i press f11 which then starts acronis recovery system
hope this helps
smartie91
Yes, Acronis does have a backup/recovery system using a hidden partition. Instead of making a .tib file, it saves the contents of a partition as raw data on that hidden acronis partition. No big deal, and is quite useful for laptops.
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You are forgetting that most users don't even grasp the notion of 'recovery' for their OS
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QoS is a very good solution
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I really don't see what the huge issue is. I've never needed the WAIK, just the 64-bit WMI filter. WAIK-less, I've even used vLite to create a clean Vista disc that installs and activates with no issues.
Guess what, lawyers don't care
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Have you tried putting both parts in the same SOURCES folder on your DVD ? AFAIK it works, I've done that with some CD pieces. Or, you might go for splitting the WIM manually with ImageX, as long as you keep the name tag the same.
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Actually, Vista is much better for that. For one thing, video drivers run in user mode now (lots more stuff does actually), so they won't take down your system (it'll just restart the driver), unlike in XP. And god knows them ATI/GeForce drivers are often the ones who do so... (That, and crappy unstable chipsets with poor drivers)
Let's not forget the support for heterogeneous video - let's say one 8800 GTS, one HD 4850 and one X1550. You could use the X1550 for PPU instead of an Ageia and the stronger two in software SLI. Everything done by the new XDDM2 and DirectX 11 driver model.
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Script it. It would save you a lot of trouble.
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What was I trying to point out here is that NOT all drivers work fine afterward. Fortunately, most of them do. Without proper testing that particular image to be done, I wouldn't jump directly on OEM-preinstalling and distributing PCs to end-users.
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Driver makers generally don't bother writing a proper uninstallation procedure (as specified in the new DDK). Thus, sysprep may not properly remove some of the files. The driver may still be registered in the system after the generalization, but its files may have been deleted.
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I've seen the same problem too, I'm guessing that the RWMs used by the WDS are still using the previous (6.0.6000) version of the wimgapi internally. Capturing manually with latest ImageX doesn't cause this problem, or at least not to the extent you're describing.
AFAIK, when Mr. Bangalore Guruprakash (brGuru) first implemented the WIM algorithms they were not designed to handle UNC paths so there's some ugly hack involved that does the dirty work of remapping something into something else digestible by the WDS data-in operation.
Try to do a capture manually to see what speeds.
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You're right, by WIMing the Ext you loose ACLs. Has anyone managed to get WDS to use pxelinux?
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No there are no MSU files stored in the image that I can find.
What about the hotfix uninstallers?
The SoftwareDistribution folder (or something like that) ?
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inject the drivers in the syspreped install.wim
Yes, yours gets scattered if you don't do that... crappy INFs most likely.
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OEMs, rejoyce!
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