On 02/10/2017 17:04, Michael Brown wrote:
1/ Use the "copype" tool with ADK
2/ Add all needed language packs, tools, etc. to the default boot.wim
file
3/ Export the default language (ie: "en") to a new WIM file and use it
as the base image.
4/ Export again the image to a separate file, mount it, apply default
lang setting (dism /set-allintl), commit and unmount
5/ Export this modified WIM file to the WIM file exported at 3/, this
will MERGE them!
6/ repeat 4/ and 5/ for every language you need.
Does this not happen automatically as soon as you have multiple images
within a single .wim file? The WIM format indexes each file by its
(SHA-1) checksum, so two files with the same contents should always end
up being deduplicated since there's no other way to represent two
identical files.
It should but experience shows that my method saves between 100~500KB
depending on my use cases.
I suspect that "DISM" somewhat duplicates some actions depending what it
is processing and it seems that a WIM file is a "append-only" file
format from what I observe.
For example, if you mount a WIM file, add a file to the mountpoint,
unmount, check WIM file size and repeat the whole process, once or
several times, the WIM file keeps growing, much like
"mark-this-old-file-as-hidden-as-use-this-one-as-current" if you see
what I mean. Then, exporting to a new WIM file only keeps
"valid/current" files, hence the loss of weight. I hope I'm clear ;)
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