Optimizing Disk Images
You must see AppDeploy.com at http://www.appdeploy.com/articles/imaging-bp.shtml for a variety of techniques you can use to optimize disk images. The following suggestions may help you to reduce the size of your image and decrease the time required to image your master installation onto the destination computers:
Use in-box drivers whenever possible to minimize the number of driver files copied to every destination computer.
If you include additional drivers, use a common set of drivers that is used across multiple product lines. Install this common set on all computers as part of the master installation, reducing the time required to locate and install a specific custom driver before you deliver the destination computer to ...
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