IBM REDP-4372-00 manual Creating an unattended profile for Windows XP, Copying the media files

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Deployment during the deploy may have problems with hard disk of lower capacity.

2.2 Creating an unattended profile for Windows XP

In this section we describe how to create a profile for unattended installation of Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 included. The major steps to create this profile includes:

￿Copy the \i386 directory from the original installation media

￿Download and slipstream the service pack

￿Create the profile in Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment

2.2.1Copying the media files

Copying the media files from the CD/DVD to a local disk allows us to customize the source depot for our installation of Windows XP. In our scenario we are using a Windows XP Professional CD for an Intel based 32-bit system.

1.Copy the full i386 folder from the CD-ROM drive including all system and hidden files as shown in Example 2-1.If you decide to copy using the GUI, make sure all hidden and system files are shown, otherwise thse fiels will not be copied.

Example 2-1 Copying the Windows XP installation files to a local drive xcopy /E /H D:\i386 X:\WinXPimg\i386

2.Verify all files and folders are created in target folder as shown in Figure 2-1 on page 20.

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