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Mini Setup Wizard prompts the user for user- and computer-specific information, such
as the following:
■ End-User License Agreement (EULA)
■ Regional options
■ User name and company
■ Product key
■ Computer name and administrator password
■ Time zone selection
Lesson 2 Using Disk Duplication to Deploy Windows XP Professional
Note When you create a disk image, all the hardware settings of the reference computer
become part of the image. Thus, the reference computer should have the same (or similar)
hardware configuration as the destination computers. If the destination computers contain
Plug and Play devices that are not present in the reference computer, they are automatically
detected and configured at the first startup following installation. The user must install any
non–Plug and Play devices manually.
To install Windows XP Professional using disk duplication, you first need to install and
configure Windows XP Professional on a test computer. You then need to install and
configure any applications and software updates on the test computer.
How to Extract the Windows System Preparation Tool
Before you can use the Windows System Preparation Tool, you must copy the necessary
files onto the computer you are using to create the master image. To copy the
System Preparation Tool, you must extract the files from \Support\Tools\Deploy.cab
on the Windows XP Professional CD-ROM. For the steps to do this, see Lesson 1,
“Creating Unattended Installations by Using Windows Setup Manager.”
Preparing a Computer for the Creation of a Master Image
by Using the System Preparation Tool
The System Preparation Tool was developed to eliminate problems encountered in
disk copying. First of all, every computer must have a unique security identifier
(SID). If you copied an existing disk image to other computers, every computer on
which the image was copied would have the same SID. To prevent this problem, the
System Preparation Tool adds a system service to the master image that creates a
unique local domain SID the first time the computer to which the master image is
copied is started.