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1. Create a network share called Nomad and map a drive letter to it (in this example, I'll use U:).
   
   
2. Run the Nomad setup routine from the extracted Notes 7.0.2 install kit.
   
   

   setup.exe /a /v"NOMAD=1 TARGETDIR=U:\ /qb+" 

   
   This will complete quite quickly and provide a bare bones Nomad setup, but without any personalisation.
   
   
3. Insert shiny new USB key (I've used 1GB keys here - less will probably not do, more is obviously OK).
   
   
4. Copy the entire contents of the network share mapped to U: to the root of the USB key - this is a lot faster than running the install routine direct to the key.
   
   
5. Stop and remove the key.
   
   
6. Ensure Notes is not running and insert the key - it should autorun.
   
   
7. Follow the usual setup steps to personalise Notes and you're done.

If you need more Nomad keys, you can just repeat from step 3.

I've gone one stage further and created a location called Nomad. This makes it easier to manage where users operate many different configurations and have roaming enabled (for BES in our case), but you can probably do without that in most cases.

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1. Chris Whisonant06/10/2006 13:34:25
Homepage: http://cwhisonant.blogspot.com

Good tip! What you may also want to do is remove the unnecessary files from the network share - this would expedite the copy to the USB key.

If I have anyone else here that wants Nomad I will probably just do this as well.

2. Chris Linfoot06/10/2006 13:45:35

OK. What unnecessary files? You mean Notes templates (.ntf) and such?

3. Gerco Wolfswinkel06/10/2006 18:32:20
Homepage: http://www.domino-weblog.nl

I've had different experiences so far. On one USB key it took over two hours; but that was a small USB 1 key - so not entirely unexpected On a larger USB 2 key it took 10 minutes.

More on USB stick speed is in the ND702 release notes. It has this link:
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=2549&p=24

4. Ben Rose11/10/2006 16:33:50
Homepage: http://www.jaffacake.net

2min install to my iPod here.

5. Lance Jurgensen18/10/2006 15:32:09

Mine just sits at "Computing space requirements" and never finishes.

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