Two XPE partitions in one hard disk.

[Guest]

Hi All,

I wonder does anyone ever experience of create two XPE images and put in two
partitions in one hard disk? I am thinking of creating two XPE images (one
with WinLogon, and one with MinLogon) and implement to two different
partitions in one hard disk. One partition(MinLogon) can run the main
program and cut down the boot time. The other(WinLogon) can have the
administration privilege change the system. Is this a wise deploy? Or,
there is a better way to do the request I need? If I do this, does it mean I
will need two licienses for one device?

Thanks in advance.

Joseph.

 

[John Coyne \(eMVP\)]

So if I understand what you are trying to do:

You want to be able to Boot with minlogon to run the actual program that
you're designing, and then be able to reboot with a WinLogon configuration
to run administration and such activities on the same system?

If I have this correct, yes you can do this, and Yes you would need 2
Licenses. if you are shipping 2 different configured images, then you have
to have 2 Seperate Licenses. if you were shipping an image, and then have a
recovery image, you would be OK, but you could not boot to that recovery
image.

This is one way to tackle what you are doing, but I would say that if
you are needing to manage your system and optimize boot time, I would look
at tuning your device with a custom shell, and maybe have some security
features built into your app, that can call windows API's for management.
This will save you time, and definately a lot of configuration headaches. I
personally have seen with WinLogon Configurations boot times in the ~10-15
Second range. Also maybe explore full WinLogon, with something like HORM, so
that you can have an "instant on" feel to the device.

HTH,
JC

--
John Coyne
eMVP
Windows Embedded Black Belt
Arrow Electronics, OCS division



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[Guest]

Thanks for the quick reply and good suggestion. John.

First, I have no knowledge about the HORM until you mentioned in your reply.
After reading some of the HORM from MSDN, seems like it can only work with
EWF (am I right?). Can HORM work with NT loader? If the HORM can work with
WinLogon in NT loader, and still have fast boot time, that will be great. I
am using the XPE SP1 Evalution Kit now, if the HORM works for the fast boot
time with WinLogon, and still have the fully network access like XP Pro, then
I can tell my company to buy the XPE SP2 to create image for our company's
product.

The image size is not the issue for my company. My boss want the fast boot
time and fully functional features like XP Pro (especially the network
access) for our company's product.

Any suggestion is highly appreciated. Thanks.

Joseph

 

[Scott Figg]

Another suggestion might be to take a look at this MSDN article on different
shells for different users.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnxpesp1/ht
ml/tchDifferentShellsForDifferentUsers.asp

Scott Figg
Arrow Electronics