James C. Dastrup wrote:
Just an off-topic tip:
My biannual Windows reinstall takes 5 minutes. Image a working
system up to your network, then image it down when you need to
rebuild. And if you use sysprep, then even any hardware changes
don't affect the image process. Or, put a sysprep'ed image on
a DVD and just image it to any computer - you never need to
see the installation again.
I think the point, here, is that, at some point in time, you do have to
go through the 45 minute flawed installation of Windows before you can
get to get to a point of imaging. Lets throw sysprep in the mix and
you've possibly added a mini-setup to your post-image dump. Tag on the
-pnp argument to sysprep so you can detect any new hardware you may have
thrown in your box since its last image and you've tacked on another
5-10 minutes to the mini-setup.
Also, a *base* Windows setup (including a copy of i386 in the root of
C:) is roughly 1.5GB of data. What do you get in that 1.5GB? Lets see,
Notepad (such a powerful text editor), Calculator, Character Map,
WordPad (even more powerful than Notepad!), Pinball, Freecell,
MediaPlayer, Internet Explorer, etc... but how much is actually useful,
and how much productivity can be found? Hardly any of it. I can
install Debian in 20 minutes and have a fully functional X Window System
and tons of utilities and productivity tools. We can leave out C:\i386
and take away about 500MB from that 1.5GB, and that still leaves us with
1GB of stuff that's mostly CRAP! To get up to speed after a post-image
dump, you'll need to reinstall your apps which takes most of the time
when rebuiling a box. So, tell us... how long does it take you to get
back to where you were after you dump the image in 5 minutes?
- Ken
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