Very small image for rebuilds
- by Deon
I worked at a place last year that had a very small image for Windows XP re-builds. It was two Norton GHO files, totalling about 2-3 GB. This is how it worked:
Boot into Norton Ghost
Map to the network share where the images lived
Apply the image to the workstation
Reboot
It would then load into Windows Setup
Enter the Domain Admin credentials so it can join the domain
That's it... it would then reboot into Windows and the image was complete.
How did they make an image so small? Did they perhaps kick off a Windows install and create an image then? I particularly liked how it required no user input other than a domain admin login.