Jeronimo Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Windows consists of multiple part. I am now at 2.7GB (2.51GB Windows, Users 125MB, Program Files 50MB, Boot 13MB, Program Data 3MB) excluding pagefile. If I remove all remaining components that I now have installed, vLite tells me I would gain 68MB on my Home Basic installation.I do not think installing Vista on a 2GB drive will be possible at least not in the near future, unless the winsxs can be reduced conssiderably (this takes up 1GB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.P Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Thanks, that's interesting.What is that Winsxs folder used for anyway?If it's merely some sort of security backup, I'd move it to another hard drive using Junction Link Magic, and leave only some naked Windows system folders on the i-RAM system partition.Cheers,David.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAbReAkA Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 @dexter.inside ... WOW.. so much stuff on such a low-end PC incredible is that vlited? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 (edited) Windows consists of multiple part. I am now at 2.7GB (2.51GB Windows, Users 125MB, Program Files 50MB, Boot 13MB, Program Data 3MB) excluding pagefile. If I remove all remaining components that I now have installed, vLite tells me I would gain 68MB on my Home Basic installation.I do not think installing Vista on a 2GB drive will be possible at least not in the near future, unless the winsxs can be reduced conssiderably (this takes up 1GB).It has already been done:also:Oh, ISO is 350mb big.... Edited January 21, 2007 by Clint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeronimo Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 @ClintNice, would really like to know how this was established and if this was with vLite or womething else. DId you just remove the winsxs folder or waht? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 @ClintNice, would really like to know how this was established and if this was with vLite or womething else. DId you just remove the winsxs folder or waht?No, I did not use vLite..it's all manual work.With Vistas imagebased setup it's really childsplay to modify the source, and the setuproutine is much easier on dependencies as well.winsxs folder cannot be removed entirely, it holds quite a few keycomponents for both your setup and later components install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vim Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 @ClintNice, would really like to know how this was established and if this was with vLite or womething else. DId you just remove the winsxs folder or waht?No, I did not use vLite..it's all manual work.With Vistas imagebased setup it's really childsplay to modify the source, and the setuproutine is much easier on dependencies as well.winsxs folder cannot be removed entirely, it holds quite a few keycomponents for both your setup and later components install.Can you share how the manual work was done? What steps you took. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 @ClintNice, would really like to know how this was established and if this was with vLite or womething else. DId you just remove the winsxs folder or waht?No, I did not use vLite..it's all manual work.With Vistas imagebased setup it's really childsplay to modify the source, and the setuproutine is much easier on dependencies as well.winsxs folder cannot be removed entirely, it holds quite a few keycomponents for both your setup and later components install.Can you share how the manual work was done? What steps you took. Thanks.Not here, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
site Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 It's all done with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). You can either use it to create custom installations or even add/remove stuff from your existing install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeveL Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 I was able to install XP on 166MHz Pentium, but I believe the official requirement was 233MHz. Of course, you could install XP with 64MB of RAM, then remove 32MB and it would run in 32MB, but horribly.XP can't do "fast user switching" unless it has 64Mb RAM.wel guys, i know now that the hd demand of vista is down when you vlite it.it normally asks for 16gb, but after the vlitement, is is satisfied with 8 gb.so thats cool, but the memory demand wont drop man.but thats work for nuhi bye bye damian666 So I don't have to resize my current 10Gb partition up to 20Gb again, thank god.It's all done with the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). You can either use it to create custom installations or even add/remove stuff from your existing install.Doesn't this leave your ISO the same size and only picks off what you set it to?A bit like the Office 2007 thing - I was real disappointed to see the ISO didn'teven change size after ripping "OneNote" and "Groove" and all the other crud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeronimo Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Well, with 0.9 beta out and COmponent Cache removable I am down to 1.4GB for Windows folder and total diskspace used is 1.5GB excluding the pagfile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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