Lenovo ThinkPad R400 User Manual

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If

you

are

building

an

Ultra-Portable

Image

or

a

Portable-Sysprep

Image,

you

can

use

application

modules.

The

deployment

and

installation

of

the

applications

modules

are

controlled

by

base

maps.

If

you

are

building

a

Hardware-Specific

Image,

you

cannot

use

application

modules

in

conjunction

with

that

image.

All

applications

must

be

part

of

the

Hardware-Specific

Image.

v

Device-driver

modules:

Each

of

these

modules

contains

all

of

the

components

associated

with

a

specific

device

driver.

If

you

are

building

an

Ultra-Portable

Image

or

a

Portable-Sysprep

Image,

you

can

use

device-driver

modules.

The

deployment

and

installation

of

the

device-driver

modules

are

controlled

by

driver

maps.

If

you

are

building

a

Hardware-Specific

Image,

you

cannot

use

device-driver

modules

in

conjunction

with

that

image.

All

device

drivers

must

be

part

of

the

Hardware-Specific

Image.

During

the

deployment

process,

you

choose

which

base

map

and

which

driver

map

to

deploy.

This

enables

you

to

maintain

device-driver

modules

and

driver

maps

independently

of

the

operating-system

and

application

content

defined

by

base

maps.

In

addition

to

modules,

the

ImageUltra

Builder

program

enables

you

to

create

containers

in

the

repository.

A

container

is

a

special

type

of

module

that

enables

you

to

group

other

modules

together

under

a

single

identifier.

All

modules

in

a

container

must

be

of

the

same

type.

For

example,

you

might

want

to

group

all

of

the

device

drivers

used

for

a

specific

machine

type

into

a

device-driver

container.

Or,

you

might

want

to

group

a

Windows

2000

base

operating-system

module

with

all

of

its

associated

add-on

modules

into

an

operating-system

container.

If

you

build

an

I386

base

operating-system

module,

you

might

want

to

group

the

I386

base

operating-system

module,

the

appropriate

Primary

Partition

partitioning

module,

the

ImageUltra

Customizations

module,

the

Sysprep

module,

and

the

UNATTEND.TXT

module

into

a

single

operating-system

container

to

ensure

all

required

components

are

kept

together.

The

use

of

containers

is

optional,

but

you

might

find

containers

helpful

when

creating

maps

because

you

can

simply

insert

the

container

module

into

your

map

instead

of

inserting

each

individual

module.

All

maps

and

modules

are

stored

in

a

repository.

When

the

repository

is

viewed

through

the

ImageUltra

Builder

interface,

the

maps

and

modules

are

identified

by

descriptive

names.

The

actual

file

names

are

assigned

by

the

ImageUltra

Builder

program.

The

following

is

a

list

of

file

extensions

used

for

the

files

in

the

repository:

v

.CRI:

Metadata

about

the

module.

This

information

is

used

within

the

ImageUltra

Builder

interface.

v

.DMA:

Driver

maps

v

.BMA:

Base

maps

v

.IMZ:

Compressed

module

source

v

.WIM:

ImageX

file

Chapter

2.

An

overview

of

the

image

process

13

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