MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted May 7, 2007 Share Posted May 7, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted May 9, 2007 Author Share Posted May 9, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobby Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxXPsoft Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 thats kewl Mav and i guess I missed this back thenIm like that cute lookin Dobby(not really) elaborate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxXPsoft Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 OK M8 will try that next time, done have a dvd burned for my umpteenth Network Home or whatever test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobby Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 It seems vLite does this already. There's not much left after it's been run. Handy if you don't use vLite though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobby Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thats great...I have not used VLite for a few months & when do I'm very conservative re what I remove from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razormoon Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dobby Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?Works OK for me Edited August 21, 2007 by Dobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razormoon Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?Works OK for meNo, 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted August 22, 2007 Author Share Posted August 22, 2007 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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