Re: Landesk 9.5 sp1 Hii Best Practices

Chad.White

Here is my configuration to the partition for Windows8. this section is for the "Pre-Os Installation" in my provisioning template (I am attaching the picture)

<section id="PreOsInstall" name="Pre-OS installation">

                    <description>Configure the hardware and get the system ready for installing the target OS.</description>

                                <action name="Wipe Disk" version="4">

                                                <description>Remove All Partitions from Disk 0</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>removeall</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Create System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Create System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>create</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionType>primary</partitionType>

                                                                <offset>0</offset>

                                                                <size>350</size>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Mount System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Mount System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>mount</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>1</partitionID>

                                                                <mountPoint>Z:</mountPoint>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Format System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Format System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>makefs</action>

                                                                <mountPoint>Z:</mountPoint>

                                                                <fsType>NTFS</fsType>

                                                                <quickFormat>True</quickFormat>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Create OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Create OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>create</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionType>primary</partitionType>

                                                                <offset>0</offset>

                                                                <size>0</size>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Mount OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Mount OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>mount</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>2</partitionID>

                                                                <mountPoint>C:</mountPoint>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Format OS Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Format OS Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>makefs</action>

                                                                <mountPoint>C:</mountPoint>

                                                                <fsType>NTFS</fsType>

                                                                <quickFormat>True</quickFormat>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                                <action name="Active System Reserved Partition" version="4">

                                                <description>Active System Reserved Partition</description>

                                                <action-type>Partition</action-type>

                                                <variables />

                                                <options>

                                                                <option name="StopProcessingTemplateIfActionFails">true</option>

                                                </options>

                                                <parameters>

                                                                <action>set</action>

                                                                <diskID>0</diskID>

                                                                <partitionID>1</partitionID>

                                                                <boot>True</boot>

                                                                <OSpartitionID />

                                                                <Windows7>False</Windows7>

                                                </parameters>

                                </action>

                </section>

I hope it helps,

Denyl