Universal Windows XP Pro Image

[Guest]

Hello,

We are currently rolling out windows xp pro with office 2003... there are
approximatly 200 PC that will re quire re imaging. At the moment we have
designed and created an image for each type of pc as there are about 5
different models in use. However i would like to develop one universal image
to deploy on all machines regardless of their model. I have tried installing
the image on different models but windows fails to boot up, it simply becomes
involved in a reboot loop, i suspect due to the drivers!!

My question is simply dow can you build an image on one machine model that
when deployed to a different model will work?

 

[Guest]

Hi, we are also looking for same answer. Is there anybody here with such a
expeirence ?

Best
damiri

 

[Guest]

Officially this is unsupported, but you may be able to get an image to boot
successfully on a range of hardware if you build it using the "Standard PCI
IDE Controller" instead of specific IDE controllers.

Having the incorrect HD controller is the main reason for images not
booting. Obviously it may help to use the vgasave display controller, and to
ensure that the chipset drivers for each mobo are included in the image.
Once the image is running you then need to select the correct drivers for
best performance.

 

[Adam Leinss]

Hello,

We are currently rolling out windows xp pro with office 2003... there
are approximatly 200 PC that will re quire re imaging. At the moment
we have designed and created an image for each type of pc as there are
about 5 different models in use. However i would like to develop one
universal image to deploy on all machines regardless of their model. I
have tried installing the image on different models but windows fails
to boot up, it simply becomes involved in a reboot loop, i suspect due
to the drivers!!

My question is simply dow can you build an image on one machine model
that when deployed to a different model will work?

Unsupported by Microsoft:

www.leinss.com/uniimg.html

Adam

 

[Hunter01]

Use Sysprep, and before making your base sysprep image try experimenting
with setting the HAL to ACPI for older to middle-aged PC's, and to multi
or uni (forget which) as a base on middle-aged to newer PC's, with the
nice little line in Sysprep.inf that'll make it kick over to the other
if required. Can't remember the exact details, but this is what we do at
work, and have one image fitting around 10 different models of PC
without any dramas at all.

 

[Mario Schmidt]

Use Sysprep, and before making your base sysprep image try experimenting
with setting the HAL to ACPI for older to middle-aged PC's, and to multi
or uni (forget which) as a base on middle-aged to newer PC's, with the
nice little line in Sysprep.inf that'll make it kick over to the other
if required.

That may help:

http://www.myitforum.com/articles/15/view.asp?id=8997

 

[Guest]

Thank you all for the posts. We will try this next week so I may come for
more help ))

damiri