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prepare a drive (see “Using a partitioning module in a base map” on page 96 for
details), but you must make your own partitioning modules to create a partition
beyond the C partition. In most cases, you use an image-cloning tool, such as
Symantec Norton Ghost or PowerQuest DeployCenter, to create an image of the
partition, but you can also create a batch file if the partition will be empty.
The starting point for creating a partitioning module is to decide whether or not
the partitioning module will contain data.
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If the partition is to contain data, you use an image-cloning tool to create an
image of the partition. Then, you put the image of the partition, the
image-cloning program, and any scripts required to install an image into a single
folder.
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If the partition will not contain data, you can use an image-cloning tool to create
the scripts required to create the partition. Then, you put the image-cloning
program and any script into a single folder.
The next step is to create an operating-system module entry in the repository.
1.
Open the repository where you want the new partitioning module to reside.
2.
If your repository contains folders, navigate to the folder where you want the
new base operating-system module to reside.
3.
From the Main Window menu bar, click Insert and then click Operating
System...
. The New Module Wizard opens.
4.
Click Next.
5.
Verify that the Operating System radio button is selected, and then click Next.
6.
In the Name field, type a name that you want to use to identify this module.
Be as specific as possible. This name will be the name that appears in the
repository.
7.
Click the No radio button to indicate that this module is not a container.
8.
Click Next.
9.
Click Next without selecting any of the modules listed.
10.
Click the Partitioning module radio button.
11.
Click Next.
12.
Click Finish. The New Module Wizard closes and the Operating System
window for the new module opens.
13.
In the General tab, do the following:
a.
In the Version field, type the full version number of the operating system.
b.
If you want to assign a password to this module, type an encryption key
in the “Encryption key for the password” field.
Note:
A password helps prevent the module from being unpacked by any
process other than an ImageUltra Builder process. When you assign
an encryption key, the ImageUltra Builder program assigns a
password to the module. Encryption keys can be up to 64 characters
long using any combination of alpha-numeric characters. Symbols
are not supported.
c.
In the Comments field, type any comments that you want to keep with the
module.
14.
In the OS/Languages tab, do the following:
a.
In the left pane, put a check mark next to each language for which the
module is intended to be used. In most cases, partitioning modules with
data are language specific and only one language is typically selected.
Chapter 8. Preparing source files for modules
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