Sysprep

[BigAl.NZ]

Hi All,

Has anyone here got experience with sysprep?

I install Windows XP home SP2 to lots of different PC's, and would
love a faster way to do it. Most of the PC's I install to are single
chip and either AMD or Intel, with SATA or IDE.

Will sysprep let me create a image, with some fairly standard answers
to automate most of this?

I understand that I will need to still install drivers at the end. I
looked at the MS KB article, but it didnt really give a step by step
approach and I found it a bit confusing.

Cheers

-Al

 

[Mario Schmidt]

Hi All,

Has anyone here got experience with sysprep?

I install Windows XP home SP2 to lots of different PC's, and would
love a faster way to do it. Most of the PC's I install to are single
chip and either AMD or Intel, with SATA or IDE.

Will sysprep let me create a image, with some fairly standard answers
to automate most of this?

I understand that I will need to still install drivers at the end. I
looked at the MS KB article, but it didnt really give a step by step
approach and I found it a bit confusing.

Get deploy.cab from your windows CD (Somewhere in support folder),
unpack it and read the contained Windows Helpfiles (the CHM-Files). All
you need to know iw somewhere in these helpfiles. I am not going to
repeat them here. Sysprep ist not an easy solution for everyone, it
needs some knowlegde and the willing to dig into some documentation.

You may have to unpack it directly to c:\sysprep, the Helpfiles didn't
show up properly when I tried it on my desktop folder for example.