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| ====== Installing Windows to an SRP target ====== | ====== Installing Windows to an SRP target ====== | ||
| - | You can create customised Windows Server 2008 installation media that will allow you to install Windows directly to your SRP SAN target. (You cannot do this using the standard installation DVD-ROM; you must customise it first.) | + | You can create customised Windows Server 2008 installation media that will allow you to install Windows directly to your SRP((**SCSI RDMA Protocol** (SRP) improves the read performance in terms of throughput which is increased significantly for both random read with good locality and sequential read.\\ **Remote Direct Memory Access** (RDMA) is a direct memory access from the memory of one computer into that of another without involving either one's operating system.)) SAN target. (You cannot do this using the standard installation DVD-ROM; you must customize it first.) |
| ===== Install the Windows AIK ===== | ===== Install the Windows AIK ===== | ||
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| DISKPART> clean | DISKPART> clean | ||
| + | DISKPART> uniqueid disk id=12345678 | ||
| DISKPART> create partition primary | DISKPART> create partition primary | ||
| DISKPART> select partition 1 | DISKPART> select partition 1 | ||
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| DISKPART> assign | DISKPART> assign | ||
| DISKPART> exit | DISKPART> exit | ||
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| + | (where //12345678// can be any non-zero 8-digit hexadecimal string that you choose). | ||
| Copy the contents of the Windows Server 2008 DVD-ROM to the USB key: | Copy the contents of the Windows Server 2008 DVD-ROM to the USB key: | ||
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| <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> | <RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add"> | ||
| <Order>1</Order> | <Order>1</Order> | ||
| - | <Path>cmd.exe /c for /f %i in ('dir /s /b %WINDIR%\inf\oem*.inf') do drvload %i</Path> | + | <Path>cmd.exe /c for /f %i in ('dir /s /b %WINDIR%\inf\oem*.inf') do drvload %i || echo Ignoring error</Path> |
| </RunSynchronousCommand> | </RunSynchronousCommand> | ||
| </RunSynchronous> | </RunSynchronous> | ||
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| </unattend> | </unattend> | ||
| - | and save it as //E:\autounattend.xml// (where //E:// is the drive letter of your USB key). | + | (modifying "amd64" to "x86" if you are using a non-64-bit version of Windows) and save it as //E:\autounattend.xml// (where //E:// is the drive letter of your USB key). |
| ==== Preparing the imagex configuration file ==== | ==== Preparing the imagex configuration file ==== | ||
