In order to get the systemimager to setup a Windows partition you need to do the following...
You have to setup a Automated windows install on a FAT partition. You have to modify the scripts and the kernel to allow support for the FAT fs. You will have to manually edit the master script to create the FAT partition and file system. You will have to prepare a GRUB setup which will boot the fat partition on the golden client You need to have the windows partition execute the OEM installation configuration upon first boot. (This is quite entailed, you shoudl be able to find information about it on the internet) You need to boot into the Linux partition first and verify the FAT partition and then reboot into the Fat partition.... You need to make sure that you setup the windows system to convert to NTFS upon first boot as well. That is all I can think of off hand...but I would like to reitterate I have only got this working in my development environment and it was not worth the aggravation when I can just create an empty partition during the image process and then ghost an image of windows onto it. Hope this helps.. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: Raghvendra Narain Shukla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 3/16/2005 9:38 PM To: Bryan Washer Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [BULK] - [Sisuite-users] Image of dual-boot installation Dear Bryan, I would like to have an glance of steps which you had done for making systemimager capable for transforming the dual boot systems. Regards Shukla On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Bryan Washer wrote: > No. It is not possible to have a dual boot box setup for the > systemimager. It would take quite a bit of customization to get a image > setup where there was a Win2000 or WinXP setup on the same machine. We > would have to spend the time to create a "Setup" image like you have on > a new machine that would then go through many steps to complete the > installation once you booted into the MS OS for the first time. But in > genereal my sentiment is No, this cannot be done in a reliable > production environment. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BULK] - [Sisuite-users] Image of dual-boot installation > > Hi, > > It is possible with Systemimager to make an image of a machine having a > dual-boot installation (surprise WinXP+Linux) and clone the image to > other clients? > > In the manual it says something about only supporting the ext2, ext3 and > reiserfs filesystems?! What about NTFS or fat. > > Thanks in advance! > /Rasmus Gjesing > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > ____ ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
