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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

2.2.1 Copying 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 Example2-1. 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.