Building a Common Image

Additional customization

At this time, any additional customizations should be applied. Typical examples

include applying a custom wallpaper or desktop theme, changing power profile

settings, and setting device options.

Obtaining drivers

There are three ways to obtain drivers for an entire product family:

• From the System Recovery Supplemental Disk created from the reference system.

The Supplemental Disk has the advantage of containing all drivers in one

place. In addition, all of the drivers are packaged in a manner that is very

cohesive with the image deployment process. Note, however, that the

Supplemental Disk usually does not contain the very latest versions of all

drivers, but contains the versions of the drivers that shipped from the factory

release of the product. To obtain the latest versions of the drivers, see one of

the other options below. Note that the contents of the Restore CD/DVD are

typically compressed in cabinet, or “cab” format. There are several tools

available to uncompress this format including “expand.exe,” which is included

in the “%windir%\system32” directory. After gathering drivers from the Restore

CD/DVD, all extracted files must be expanded prior to use within the common

image scenario.

• From the SoftPaq files obtained from the HP support website. Go to

http://www.hp.com and choose the “Support and Drivers” link. Select (or

enter) the product name for which you want to download drivers, and the

corresponding operating system. For each driver, choose to “Save” the Softpaq

when prompted with the following screen: