Re: [Testbed-admins] Making custom Windows OS images

[Robert P Ricci <ricci@cs.utah.edu>]

We're all buried under imminent deadlines at the moment, so it'll be a
while before we'll be able to look at this in detail. The questions in
here that I can quickly answer are: when the instructions say to run
prepare, they are referring to running it from the admin MFS; trafgen
isn't required.

Thus spake Korrie, Donna M CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RYRD on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:26:53AM -0400:
> Was there an answer to this?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: testbed-admins-bounces@flux.utah.edu
> [mailto:testbed-admins-bounces@flux.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Burnett
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:27 AM
> To: testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
> Subject: [Testbed-admins] Making custom Windows OS images
> 
> All,
>    We're trying to make a custom Windows XP image for our emulab.  we
> have windows installed with cygwin, do we need anything else? trafgen?
> 
> We're following the instructions here:
> (http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/Windows#MakingcustomWindowsOSi
> mages)
>  but I'm a bit confused when they talk about running the prepare
> script, is that from within cygwin, or is that from the MFS admin
> image (FreeBSD) just before we run imagezip from boss?
> 
> Are there complete instructions for making the first windows image
> someplace, these instructions seam to be geared more for altering an
> existing windows image, to make the image in the first place do we
> just use imagezip like this:
> 
> sudo ssh pc1 imagezip /dev/da0 - > WinXP-STD.ndz
> 
> 
> I've been looking at these pages already:
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/install/customize_images.html
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/Tutorial#CustomOSImages
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/Windows
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/Windows#MakingcustomWindowsOSim
> ages
> 
> Thanks,
> --Ben
> 
> 
> Ben Burnett
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