[Newbie] FBA vs Installations

[Asim Hussnain]

I understand that FBA can do some Machine/User-Specific One-Time
Installation tasks. Consider this case:
I'm creating a run-time image to be deployed on several similiar machines
(rather same machines). Lets say that I created this image and then booted a
mchine with the image. So the FBA runs. Now my XPE is running on machine.
I've to integrate many third party applications with the image. To save
myself trouble of *componentizing* the 3rd party components, I install the
3rdParty programs on the running XPE image. Now I take the image (bit by bit
snapshot) of the Partition and deploy this onto other machines.

Should doing so work? NO? Why not? Somehow YES? How? Any clues?
TIA

Asim Hussnain
IPA

 

[Sören Gessele]

Hi asim,
if you clone a system which already ran through the FBA the SID&Computername
will be at all systems the same. If you
dont use network or something dont care, but its not the finest way ;-)

Best regards,
Sören

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Asim,

If you don't use EWF that have created hidden EWF partition then you can use ordinary xcopy for this task.
If you need to make each your image unique in some way, SID/Computer names, etc, then read:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...a=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*

Regards,
Slobodan