Software installs (dll-cache) and updates make it grow considerably. I don't remember the size of my fresh Win7 installation, but I doubt it was 18gb. Maybe I'm wrong...
Just looked at my base Windows install at the vm at work and the C:\windows\ folder is 18GB. I guess Win7 is a little fat after years of updates.On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:Hi Stefan
Cleaned the trash/tmp folders, did all the chkdsk, and then ran sysprep.
I was surprised as well that it was that big. (This is on a volume license
installer - not sure if it makes a difference)
Kind Regards
Angus
On 2013/08/21 3:38 PM, "Stefan Kubicek" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I don't think there is anything that speaks against Win8 for use in
>render farms, it's still strange you get such a huge image with Win7.
>Maybe there is a hidden hibernation file (always has the size of your
>machines RAM) or excessive paging file that bloats it that much? Did you
>delete files that might have remained on disk after installation? Did you
>clean the trash bin?
>
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am looking at imaging our render farm (mac mini's running bootcamp).
>>I have a very nice workflow via win clone pro . I can using Apple Remote
>>Desktop pump out the images as mac packages to any of the mac on the
>>network and it automatically installs bootcamp and the windows therein.
>>(I just need to change the machine name, and activate windows and I am
>>good to go)
>>
>> The only problem I have is that even for the base windows 7 install the
>>uncompressed image is about 20Gigs in size. Add the packages I need on
>>it to render and it grows again.
>>
>> Windows 8 has a much smaller footprint upfront. (8Gigs)
>>
>> Which leads to my question. Has anyone had experience with using a
>>windows 8 based render farm vs a windows 7 one. I must admit I am more
>>comfortable in windows 7, But having a much more optimised image is also
>>a great thing when your doing a lot of deployments.
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Angus
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