Before installing the operating system, make sure that the OS partition on the reference machine should be aligned to 4 KB boundary. To prepare the reference machine, perform the following steps:
Caution: Store the OS on the C: drive. It is the only drive that will be captured.
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To determine which version of the .NET Framework is present on the reference machine, list the folders in the following directory:
%SYSTEMROOT%/Microsoft.NET/Framework
For Legacy deployment only:
Install the agent from the HPCA installation media as per your requirements—at a minimum, you must install the Application Manager and OS Manager agents. These are required so that when the OS image is deployed, the device can connect to HPCA server. If you need to update the agents, you must use agent self-maintenance.
Note: For Windows operating system before Windows 7, HP supports deploying the image to the primary boot partition of the primary boot drive.
Caution: To successfully capture an image using the Windows Setup deployment method, you must have sufficient free disk space in the OS partition on the reference machine. For example, to capture a 7 GB image, you will need 50-60 GB of free disk space.
The following steps help to minimize the size of the .WIM
image file:
HP recommends that after you have created the smallest partition with the least amount of free disk space as possible, set ExtendOemPartition = 1
in the [Unattended]
section of the Sysprep.inf
file to allow for the small image to be installed on a target device with a much larger drive.
When ExtendOemPartition
= 1
, the Microsoft Mini-Setup Wizard will extend the OS installation partition into any available non-partitioned space that physically follows on the disk. The HPCA agent can then use the free space on the volume for application installations.