[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Read if your installing from boot & not from the dvd's setup.exe as we do in UA. I believe many dirs & files can be removed from the sources folder?
Can anyone confirm this & does anyone know exactly what may be removed to still allow UA functionality.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

As no one has been forth coming or may not know??
I have successfully reduced my sources directory down to the following see image.
No loss of functionality, working good. Bear in mind this is totally ran from the dvd in a UA setup only.

This post has been edited by MAVERICKS CHOICE: 09 May 2007 - 03:04 PM

[Dobby]

Hey this is interesting. Could you elaborate on the process a bit more. I know when installing drivers from media you use SetDriversRoot which calls X:\Setup.exe at the end (after setting the root) so are you saying that this method does not use setup.exe? If so how does it work? Can you still install drivers/apps? Why do both methods exist? Too many questions?!

Thanks.

This post has been edited by Dobby: 21 August 2007 - 08:59 AM

[maxXPsoft]

thats kewl Mav and i guess I missed this back then
Im like that cute lookin Dobby(not really) elaborate

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Yeah guys as I mentioned above if running UA you can reduce the Sources dir down to what I have shown above with no problems. most of it is only used if running setup from the disc or upgrading etc.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Dobby, on Aug 22 2007, 12:58 AM, said:

Hey this is interesting. Could you elaborate on the process a bit more. I know when installing drivers from media you use SetDriversRoot which calls X:\Setup.exe at the end (after setting the root) so are you saying that this method does not use setup.exe? If so how does it work? Can you still install drivers/apps? Why do both methods exist? Too many questions?!

Thanks.

Yes Dobby full functionality & no you don't remove anything from the root...only the Sources dir.
Hope that helps..

[maxXPsoft]

OK M8 will try that next time, done have a dvd burned for my umpteenth Network Home or whatever test.

[Dobby]

It seems vLite does this already. There's not much left after it's been run. Handy if you don't use vLite though.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Dobby, on Aug 22 2007, 06:44 AM, said:

It seems vLite does this already. There's not much left after it's been run. Handy if you don't use vLite though.

Don't quote me Dobby but pretty sure VLite reduces both wims not other files in the sources dir...mostly a double up..

This post has been edited by MAVERICKS CHOICE: 21 August 2007 - 02:59 PM

[Dobby]

Well I have a few vLited images on my drive and it seems they all remove everything apart from boot.wim, install.wim and the clg for the version you selected (Home Premium in my case) from sources. It also removes 'support' and 'upgrade' from the root.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Thats great...I have not used VLite for a few months & when do I'm very conservative re what I remove from there.

[razormoon]

Yes, Mav

vlite does remove everything but the *.wim and *.clg. However, as soon as I upgraded from v1.0 final to 1.1 beta it doesn't do it anymore!

I wonder if it's something on my end??

[Dobby]

Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?

Works OK for me

This post has been edited by Dobby: 21 August 2007 - 05:51 PM

[razormoon]

Dobby, on Aug 21 2007, 05:51 PM, said:

Did you do Rebuild in vLite or just Apply?

Works OK for me

No, no. Definately rebuild. But I'm thinking if you're using 1.1beta and it's only leaving the wims then it's good news for me and I just have to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Listen guys this thread has nothing to do with VLite & as such Nuhi has a forum thread dedicated to such. Not to mention I got onto to this before VLite did same & I definetly know it...lets keep on topic or move on Please...

[maxXPsoft]

cheers MC
worked just fine for me leaving just the wims and catalog files

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

A pleasure Max
I just wanted to reduce the bloat from my source further on a ua install.

[Innocent Devil]

Sources Directory need only the two files boot.wim and install.wim
it works fine on dvd boot UA

BTW does anyone know how to change the path and name of install.wim
ie "\Sources\install.wim" of default to somthin like "abcd\def.wim"

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@ID
You are correct & I haven't disputed that if you see my second post....

Quote....Sources Directory need only the two files boot.wim and install.wim it works fine on dvd boot UA

This post has been edited by MAVERICKS CHOICE: 05 September 2007 - 04:08 AM

[Dobby]

Perhaps ID is suggesting that you don't even need the catalog files?