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Your Building a LiteTouch Bootable USB Image Questions Answered!

via The Windows Blog by Stephen L Rose on 6/21/10

During the Get On The Bus Tour, I did a demo using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 where I took a Windows XP machine with Office 2003 on it and migrated it to Windows 7 and Office 2010 in under 40 minutes. I have received several emails with questions on this presentation, so here are the answers to those questions.

What is MDT 2010 and how do I get it???

  • Check out my post on the MDT 2010 here and information on how to access the latest version.

How do I build the image and use the tool?

  • Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Using MDT 2010?

How do I build that bootable USB stick?

  1. Based on the size of the content folder, acquire a USB drive that will store all of your files. (Remember, you can do everything by storing your deployment files on the network also and boot from the LiteTouchPEx86/x64.iso files – they are typically under 300MB)
  2. Prepare the USB drive to be bootable
    1. Insert drive
    2. Open an elevated Command Prompt
    3. Type “diskpart.exe”
    4. Type “list disk” and find the disk number
    5. Type “sel disk 1” (replace the “1” with the actual number)
    6. Type “clean”
    7. Type “cre par pri”
    8. Type “active”
    9. Type “format fs=ntfs quick”
    10. Type “assign”
    11. Type “exit”
  3. Now copy the content in the “content” folder to the root of the USB stick.
  4. Now you should have a bootable USB stick with your image and custom build on it.

How can I view your Get On The Bus Tour presentation?

Thanks again to everyone who attended our Bus Tour events!

6.088 Introduction to C Memory Management and C++ Object-Oriented Programming (MIT)

Ever hang your head in shame after your Python program wasn't as fast as your friend's C program? Ever wish you could use objects without having to use Java? Join us for this fun introduction to C and C++! We will take you through a tour that will start with writing simple C programs, go deep into the caves of C memory manipulation, resurface with an introduction to using C++ classes, dive deeper into advanced C++ class use and the C++ Standard Template Libraries. We'll wrap up by teaching you some tricks of the trade that you may need for tech interviews.

We see this as a "C/C++ empowerment" course: we want you to come away understanding

  1. why you would want to use C over another language (control over memory, probably for performance reasons),
  2. why you would want to use C++ rather than C (objects), and
  3. how to be useful in C and C++.

This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.

via pheedcontent.com