What Dirs/Files can safely be removed for UA

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Read if your installing from boot & not from the dvd's setup.exe as we do in UA. I believe many dirs & files can be removed from the sources folder?

Can anyone confirm this & does anyone know exactly what may be removed to still allow UA functionality.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

As no one has been forth coming or may not know??

I have successfully reduced my sources directory down to the following see image.

No loss of functionality, working good. Bear in mind this is totally ran from the dvd in a UA setup only.

Edited May 9, 2007 by MAVERICKS CHOICE

[Dobby]

Hey this is interesting. Could you elaborate on the process a bit more. I know when installing drivers from media you use SetDriversRoot which calls X:\Setup.exe at the end (after setting the root) so are you saying that this method does not use setup.exe? If so how does it work? Can you still install drivers/apps? Why do both methods exist? Too many questions?!

Thanks.

Edited August 21, 2007 by Dobby

[maxXPsoft]

thats kewl Mav and i guess I missed this back then

Im like that cute lookin Dobby(not really) elaborate

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Yeah guys as I mentioned above if running UA you can reduce the Sources dir down to what I have shown above with no problems. most of it is only used if running setup from the disc or upgrading etc.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Hey this is interesting. Could you elaborate on the process a bit more. I know when installing drivers from media you use SetDriversRoot which calls X:\Setup.exe at the end (after setting the root) so are you saying that this method does not use setup.exe? If so how does it work? Can you still install drivers/apps? Why do both methods exist? Too many questions?!

Thanks.

Yes Dobby full functionality & no you don't remove anything from the root...only the Sources dir.

Hope that helps..

[maxXPsoft]

OK M8 will try that next time, done have a dvd burned for my umpteenth Network Home or whatever test.

[Dobby]

It seems vLite does this already. There's not much left after it's been run. Handy if you don't use vLite though.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

It seems vLite does this already. There's not much left after it's been run. Handy if you don't use vLite though.

Don't quote me Dobby but pretty sure VLite reduces both wims not other files in the sources dir...mostly a double up..

Edited August 21, 2007 by MAVERICKS CHOICE

[Dobby]

Well I have a few vLited images on my drive and it seems they all remove everything apart from boot.wim, install.wim and the clg for the version you selected (Home Premium in my case) from sources. It also removes 'support' and 'upgrade' from the root.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Thats great...I have not used VLite for a few months & when do I'm very conservative re what I remove from there.

[razormoon]

Yes, Mav

vlite does remove everything but the *.wim and *.clg. However, as soon as I upgraded from v1.0 final to 1.1 beta it doesn't do it anymore!

I wonder if it's something on my end??

[Dobby]

Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?

Works OK for me

Edited August 21, 2007 by Dobby

[razormoon]

Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?

Works OK for me

No, no. Definately rebuild. But I'm thinking if you're using 1.1beta and it's only leaving the wims then it's good news for me and I just have to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Listen guys this thread has nothing to do with VLite & as such Nuhi has a forum thread dedicated to such. Not to mention I got onto to this before VLite did same & I definetly know it...lets keep on topic or move on Please...