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Again, the more memory you have available for your clients, the better
performance you get. The Windows NT Client Feature in the office
environment also performs well with 64 MB of memory installed. There may
be performance improvements with 128 MB installed.
1.3.3.3 Disk space
As mentioned earlier in this chapter, a hard drive is required on your clients.
The default installation partition size is 250 MB, which can be customized. It
is recommended to increase the default partition size for Windows NT
machines to 600 MB to accommodate the service pack. If possible, make the
default partition size equal to the smaller of 8 GB or the largest disk available
in your rollout environment. The other diskspace is not going to be used any
way.
The maximum hard disk size supported on the Feature for Windows Clients
clients must not be greater than 8 GB.
Only FAT16 partitions will be created on the target client. Use of any other file
system is dependent on the particular operating system’s ability to modify/
convert the partition as part of the unattended install. (For example, Windows
NT 4.0 allows the option to convert a FAT16 partition to NTFS as part of the
install process by customizing the installation response file UNATTEND.TXT.)
1.3.4 Device support
Devices that are automatically recognized and configured by the setup
process of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT are supported by the
default response file that will be shipped with the product. Support of new
devices require manual modification of the response file by the system
administrator using information from Microsoft's Windows 95, Windows 98,
and Windows NT Resource Kits. Later in this redbook you will find sample
response files showing how additional and/or newer devices can be added to
the install process.
1.4 Licensing and packaging
The Feature for Windows Clients is available as an upgrade to WorkSpace
On-Demand 2.0.
Each WorkSpace On-Demand workstation that needs to use the Feature for
Windows Clients requires a WorkSpace On-Demand 2.0 client licence and
the appropriate Windows licence from Microsoft, that is, a Windows 95,
Windows 98, or Windows NT licence.
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