Pre installation windows xp

[Luca Gervasi]

Hallo,

i'm new to this group, i made my searches but no results come.

Is it possible to create a "general purpose" windows xp installation,
with no cd key, no specialized driver and some general use software
pre installed, so that i can create an image with partimage or similar
tools and stream it each time a different computer needs
reinstallation?

I need to speedup the installation process a bit.

Actually i use a winxp slipstreamed with sp3 and some fixes and
tools... but i want something faster.

Thanks in advance

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i'm new to this group, i made my searches but no results come.

Is it possible to create a "general purpose" windows xp
installation, with no cd key, no specialized driver and some
general use software pre installed, so that i can create an image
with partimage or similar tools and stream it each time a different
computer needs reinstallation?

I need to speedup the installation process a bit.

Actually i use a winxp slipstreamed with sp3 and some fixes and
tools... but i want something faster.

Sysprepped image using whatever imaging tool you want.
Or maybe MDT...

 

[Luca Gervasi]

Sysprepped image using whatever imaging tool you want.
Or maybe MDT...

Before everything else, please allow me to thank you for your answer.

Btw, i'm a newbie and your acrhonims are nothing more than some glyphs
to me... could you please point me somewhere?

thanks again!

 

[Shenan Stanley]

i'm new to this group, i made my searches but no results come.

Is it possible to create a "general purpose" windows xp
installation, with no cd key, no specialized driver and some
general use software pre installed, so that i can create an image
with partimage or similar tools and stream it each time a different
computer needs reinstallation?

I need to speedup the installation process a bit.

Actually i use a winxp slipstreamed with sp3 and some fixes and
tools... but i want something faster.

Sysprepped image using whatever imaging tool you want.
Or maybe MDT...

Before everything else, please allow me to thank you for your
answer.

Btw, i'm a newbie and your acrhonims are nothing more than some
glyphs to me... could you please point me somewhere?

Now is a great time to point you to one of the easiest ways to find
information on problems you may be having and solutions others have found:

Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )

Along that line - I am not going to just give you the answer - but how you
could have come upon the answers based off this conversation...

From "what is sysprep":
http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+sysprep

You might visit this site:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783215.aspx

And read up on SysPrep and what it does, can do, etc...


From "what is imaging tools"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+imaging+tools

You might have deduced that some of the more commonly used imaging tools out
there are:

Symantec/Norton Ghost
http://snipurl.com/13e00

Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

BootIt NG
http://terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

Casper Suite
http://www.jamfsoftware.com/products/casper_suite.php


I can see where MDT could confuse someone - sorry about that...

From "What is MDT":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=What+is+MDT

You would likely eventually get to:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MDT

And deduced that - in this particular conversation - one would likely use
the following:

MDT- Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

So then...

What is Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=what+is+Microsoft+Deployment+Toolkit

Might have lead you to these two pages eventually:
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb891786.aspx
-
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...1f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89&displaylang=en


Some things you *might* have come across - but might not have - just from
the conversation and resulting search words so far (although as you read up
more and more - your search vocabulary would naturally grow):

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/
http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/

As I said - *might have* come across these. The reason I am including them
is that even the best imaging solution can also benefit fromsome standard
method of initially installing and/or some of the
tools/methods/scripts/command line switches you can find using the web pages
that dedicate themselves to easy distribution and management of
software/operating systems.

Some of that you might have already known.

Hope that helps!