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26 Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment in a Retail Environment
Figure 2-10 Operating system source files detected
8. Next we are prompted to define the partition size that will be used for the
Windows XP installation. This can be defined as an absolute value or as a
proportion of the available space. As you are unlikely to know the size of all
target disks, we recommend that you specify to use 100% of the disk as
shown in Figure 2-11 on page 26.
Figure 2-11 Disk partition sizing question
9. Next we specify NTFS as the filesystem type and to use the entire disk as
shown in Figure 2-12
Tip: If you prefer to keep certain files on a system even after a
redeployment of the operating system, create a second partition and place
those files there.