XP Image

Lee H

Hi

Does anyone know how to create an XP image that is not specific to the system model

I have heard of people having these images but never know how to make one


Lee H

sprkymrk

In a nutshell:

Copy all the drivers from your various platforms into a folder called Drivers or whatever on the C: drive of your master image, and I like to make a subfolder for each type or model of computer you want to support. I think you need to place them in a $OEM$ directory. Then you add the line:

OemPnPDriversPath=drivers\GX520;drivers\Optiplex745;drivers\GX280 etc to the [Unattended] section of your sysprep.inf file. Then copy all your sysprep files to c:\sysprep as usual.
Next, copy the whole i386 folder from your XP CD to c:\sysprep. Add InstallFilesPath=c:\Sysprep\i386 to the [Unattended] section of sysprep.inf.

The only things likely to give you trouble are different HALS or hard drive controllers. There is another line you can add to the sysprep.inf file to handle the HAL, but it escapes me at the moment. For different hard drive controllers, I believe the lines you add are:


[Sysprep]
BuildMassStorageSection=Yes

[SysprepMassStorage] (leave this blank)

HTH.

Edit: Here is a nice link for you.
http://www.vernalex.com/guides/sysprep/index.shtml