Capture Images for Deployment using the Windows Native Install Packager

Note: Capture of Windows XP and Windows 2003 images for this deployment mode is only supported in HPCA Enterprise Edition.

This is the only case in which you will use the HPCA Windows Native Install Packager to prepare an image. The image is of the installation media for a pre-Windows Vista operating system on a hard drive on the reference machine. The resulting image has completed the file copy phase of a Windows installation and contains the HPCA agent. The image is sent to the <InstallDir>\Data\OSManagerServer\upload directory on the HPCA server, and then you use the Publisher to publish the image to the CSDB.

When the image is deployed to a target device, the target device reboots, and the Windows Native Install setup continues with the text mode setup phase, followed by the GUI phase. These two phases are controlled by unattend.txt and allow for a completely unattended setup.


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