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I also started out running a similar system, <br>
I have run windows setup originally using unattend, but fell back to
using a ghost image + wpkg. <br>
Even when automated, the clients took 3-4 hours to install. I now
roll-up my current WPKG SOE 1 or 2 times a year into a new ghost image.
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This brings total installation time to between 15min-45min for a
desktop, 2-3hours laptop (They're Encrypted).<br>
In fact I just reached 200 managed packages today after 12 months of
using WPKG. <br>
For an organisation with 300 users we have ALOT of software, something
in the order of 400 different active titles. The biggest difficulty is
re-packaging, Appdeploy.com helps alot.<br>
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Kevin Landers wrote, On 17/10/2008 10:20:
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Berge,<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:02 AM, Berge Schwebs
Bjørlo <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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FWIW, we use a method similar to Rainer Meier's method, but started in a<br>
different way. We've made a (rather hackish, but effective) unattended<br>
Windows installation suite (which boots Linux off PXE, mounts an
installation<br>
share, partitions disks and run Windows Setup in dosemu). Windows Setup
is<br>
fed with a file called unattend.txt - among other things, it installs
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<div class="Ih2E3d">I can give you the details if you're interested.<br>
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I would be very interested in hearing your
methods for such an installation process. I have long thought it to
make sense to perform such roll outs via a PXE boot. I would have never
thought to utilize dosemu in that way though. Any and all insight you
could provide about this would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps if you
are willing, we could move such information to the wiki, etc. *Believes
heavily in documentation* ;)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
landersk</div>
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