Hello, I've made my integration which pre-enables the .netframework 3.5 into my .wim images, my AIO includes w8, w8 pro, w8 pro WMC and w8 Enterprise for both architectures, now I'm facing the problem that the iso exceeds the weight by 22 MB, so I'm forced to use a dvd9, now that the feature is preinstaled into de the win images I think that I can reduce the space by deleting the .net framework files for 3.5 in the sxs folder but exactly which files do I have to delete? Thanks a lot who can enlighten me.
The sxs folder contains also files of .net 4 and other stuff so maybe the installation could be affected if I do that.
Delete the Windows 8 Pro for both Architectures from the ISO...Windows 8 Core or Pro installation depends upon the product key you use during installation...So keep Win8 Core, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center and Windows 8 Enterprise for both architectures ..I think that would reduce the size of the ISO...Don't delete the sxs folder...it would be problematic later on to install .Net Framework...as it cannot be installed offline from the ISO by cmd.
I don't believe you can delete the .Net 3.5 files because .Net 4.5 depends on .Net 3.5 for some dependencies to run. Me personally would delete Windows 8 Core seeing that it is virtually useless.
This is about \sources\sxs on the DVD, so it doesn't matter. The installer only deploys the Windows image from the .wim, not the sxs directory. That is not an issue here since it was installed in the offline image.
Yeah, I think that that's my best option, nobody uses it. However, I wanted to ask to see if there was a way to reduce those 22 mb in stead of deleting a image of the wim intall. I should eliminate the core version, not pro, the key decides which image is gonna use to install but not creates a custom installation, if there wasn't that way the wim file would contain only one image in stead of two. dism /Get-WIMInfo /WimFile:c:\dvdx86\sources\install.wim
if you integrated updates properly, with audit etc, you "could" go inside winsxs and get rid of the "old" stuff, Shell32.dll for example should be there in several versions, Windows will never read these ever again, i think they are simply kepts for easy hotfix uninstall, not sure really, but you should be able to simply delete 1-2 old shell32.dll revisions, as Windows will always use the newest one, at least i don't think it matters if you delete these or not, shell32.dll is even big enough to ga Though fact stays, you should never delete anything in winsxs, Windows is actually using it, if you delete the whole folder you are basicly crippling the whole system to the ground and some stuff simply stops working completly. C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell32_31bf3856ad364e35_6.2.9200.16433_none_c527e37a9b987bd1 C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-shell32_31bf3856ad364e35_6.2.9200.16420_none_c52fb2889b9313db for example and voila you have your space 22mb back, deleting them ofc is your own risk
it seems to work, I deleted the sxs folder and tried in my vmware, the installer worked fine and I asked for the enabled features and showed me the same than my host system, .net 3.5 and net 4 were enabled, I also tried to install them and the systems told me that they were part of the system already. However, now the problem is if there is missing any dll from the sxs folder.
Yeah, Btor gave me this solution a few hours ago, I reduced 350 MB so now I can say that my problem is solved.Thanks to all those who tried to help me.