marcusj0015 Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 where is this best prcatice article?tbh, i've tried compressing a wim with max, then recompresing the compressed wim again, but it didn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Rebuilding your wim will only save you a few MB's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myselfidem Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 You can find help reading this article: ImageX Command-Line Optionshttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799302(WS.10).aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 where is this best prcatice article?tbh, i've tried compressing a wim with max, then recompresing the compressed wim again, but it didn't workOf course. You can do a max compress on a no compress, but you can't do a fast on a max. The article is on the Partner network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusj0015 Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 i tried doing max compress on max compressare you guys trolling me or something?i hve tried it before and it didn't work, idk why it would be defferent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nice_guy75 Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 i tried doing max compress on max compressare you guys trolling me or something?i hve tried it before and it didn't work, idk why it would be defferentI guess either you are doing it wrong or you are trying to compress an already compressed wim. We are doing it successfully, today only I have compressed my wim from 2.17gb to 1.97gb, compress 200 mb; almost 10% of the size of the install.wim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 25, 2011 Share Posted April 25, 2011 i tried doing max compress on max compressare you guys trolling me or something?i hve tried it before and it didn't work, idk why it would be defferentMax compress on max doesn't do anything. You can do max compress on a fast and get results. Honestly, i tried some compress tests last friday and found I would only save about 300MB on my Win7 image from no compress to max compress. In our case, we were concerned about size on DVD (for x64) but after recompress at max for an hour and only saving 300MB it became obvious it wasn't worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusj0015 Posted April 26, 2011 Author Share Posted April 26, 2011 ANY space to me is worth it, my image right now is 6.2 GB's so if i could take 10 percent off that that would be good, i'm hoping to get it to fit on a single layer DVD, instead of having to cut into my much smaller pile of DVD DL's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nice_guy75 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 You can use Dism with /Apply-Unattend:http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-ch/library/dd744522(en-us,WS.10).aspxHey mate can we integrate Autounattend.xml in the install.wim itself instead of placing it in the root of the DVD?And can we integrate different xmls in different wims and then integrate those wims? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myselfidem Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 (edited) Unfortunately, No, we can't use Dism /Apply-Unattend, to integrate an full Autounattend.xml file! I've tested many times whitout success, even if the process with DISM was successful!!!It's only usefull to add devices drivers or packages!Unattended Servicing Command-Line OptionsExtract:Limitations:When you use DISM.exe to apply an answer file to a running operating system, the answer file should only contain elements in the offlineServicing configuration pass. This is because some settings in the Specialize configuration pass might get applied to the operating system. We recommend that the answer file you use with DISM only contain settings in the offlineServicing configuration pass. More help:http://www.msfn.org/...attended-setup/But, this can be done with sysprep, like explained here:http://technet.micro...).aspx#IMPLICIT Edited April 26, 2011 by myselfidem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 It was possible under Vista (haven't tried 7) to have an image that is sysprepped using /unattend:unattend.xml. You needed the full path, but I liked to put it in Panther, so path to c:\windows\panther\sysprep.xml. Then you mount the image and overwrite the sysprep.xml file, deploy and reboot. Basically, windows only records the filename specified during sysprep. It doesn't actually parse it until the system boots for the first time, so you could replace the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myselfidem Posted April 27, 2011 Share Posted April 27, 2011 i tried doing max compress on max compressi hve tried it before and it didn't work, idk why it would be defferentSorry! I've updated my post because I wasn't clear enough! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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