bj-kaiser

imagex.exe is not in %PATH%. Either add the directory containing imagex.exe to your PATH or use the WAIK command prompt. (Start->Programs->Microsoft Windows AIK->Windows PE Tools command prompt)

You can boot the .WIM over PXE. You dont even need WDS for that, any combination of TFTP and DHCP server works. It's fairly good documented in the WAIK manual how you setup a TFTP share for booting WinPE over PXE. (Windows PreInstallation phase - phase 4) BTW: just to be clear, we are talking about Windows PE 2.0, right?

just get the department thats managing the DHCP services to set option 66 (TFTP-server) and 67 (Bootfile-Name) to the values you need. Looks like what should take the least effort to me.

Some helpful links: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/createit.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcen...s/scripto2.mspx

the USB port in question doesn't happen to be on a PCI bracket? If it is, maybe the connectors to the mainboard aren't connected in the right order. Just a guess

just an idea: every modem you find nowadays should have dial tone detection. You could send AT-Commands over the COM port to let it open the line and detect dialtone. If it doesnt get a dial tone in a certain time frame, you should either get or be able to pull some return value from the modem. You need to find the manual for your specific modem, there should be a listing of AT-Commands in it.

The problem is even worse, my preferred magazine already had some articles about this problem. Basically, the controllers of small sticks will be manipulated to report more capacity than there is hardware-wise. Everything that goes over the limit of the built-in flash, gets reported as good write by the controller, but when you try to read the data there all you get are zeros. Ironically, their own PR department got betrayed, they had an offer with an USB flash disk as welcome gift. And said UFDs where manipulated in the same way.

Oh great, i wondered when the flamewar would begin. Here's a try to clear it up a bit (though it still looks pointless to me): Would you blame Windows if a GPU wouldn't work as expected? No, you'd blame NVidia/ATI/whomever. Same goes for Linux. The MP3 problem exists because of patents Even the free distributions (Debian/KXUBuntu/SuSE and what else is out there) would have to pay for patented technologies, if those decoders where delivered with the base install (IIRC). How'd even guess how high the exact numbers of installations are? There is no such thing as Windows activation or WGA in the linux distributions I have seen. Is OpenOffice that slow with or without the autostart preloader? Same for MS Office, the default install usually installs a preloader for MSO AFAIK. (and even if it was slower, you are talking about what? 2 - 3 seconds ...) different memory management I don't know much about that, but I know that usually the RAM that is not yet used by daemons/applications is used for diskcaching, which explains the high usage. Don't know how that compares to Windows XP. Oh and one last word: Don't expect Linux to behave like Windows ... it just isn't Windows.

As much as I could find on the Verizon site, they seem to give customers Ethernet/USB-Modems and use PPPoE as protocol. if you don't have a router, its a bit more work to set it up, but nowhere near impossible. @geek: I think what you mean about picking up an IP and be done, sounds like a router to me. And even with a router, results may vary. I got a DSL-Modem-Router from my TelCo here, and it worked with Windows like expected (*duh*), but for some reason it doesn't like the default setup of Ubuntu's DHCP-Client.

To me that looks like the BIOS is telling you a S.M.A.R.T. error has occured. But I could be wrong. Get a copy of your vendors disk diagnosis software (http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/) and run a drive selftest. PS: Caps lock! -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMAR

Probably won't work. The .exe is a NSIS installer and unless they extended the base setup, NSIS installers only know /S for silent setup. you will be faster if you unzip the NSIS file with an archiver that understands the format. http://www.7-zip-org for example.

I think thats intended. tar bundles multiple files to one, gzip or bzip compresses. So, tar the files first and then use b/gzip on the tar. Now you got a tar.gz or tar.bz

http://www.7-zip.org should do

For Re-engineering the wheel by just looking at the traffic, SAMBA works quite well. I don't have to complaints about that. I'm just wondering what you mean by "proper implementation"....

source: http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/

2 comments on that On the source:It's not virtualization, it's just that Xorg supports multiple input devices and monitors. the only difference between Xorg and userful's thing I see, is that for $99 p. user (if you go >2 users) you get a GUI for the configuration (I almost forgot, technical support) Maybe it's faster to setup and less of a P.I.T.A. but I just wanted to note that you can get a multi-user system for free (some time of config writing excluded).

http://www.wireshark.org

I got a little Problem here, I'm trying to build some scripts for WinBuilder (ever heard of 'VistaPE'? that project is using it too). VistaPE is nice, but I wanted something more along the guidelines of MS. So I tried to recreate the batch files MS delivers with the WAIK within WinBuilder scripts. Everything went nice and the image is bootable. There is just one disturbing thing, there seem to be files in the building directory, that I don't have any write access to. After installing all the packages available, when I try to delete my working directory, I end up with "access denied" messages (using 'del /F /S /Q workdir'). The funny thing is, not even the "system" account has any write rights on those files, according to the security/permissions tab of the file properties. So my only way to get rid of the directory is to boot to another OS and delete the files from there. Did anyone else run into this problem?

Do you have the usual broadband router (dsl/cable/whatever) setup? If that's true, try resetting/unplugging your router. Maybe the dhcp server got some problems.

Oh right, i forgot to mention, the sysprep.inf (Sysprep's answer file) is optional. I.e. if it doesnt exist, mini-setup will ask for everything. Some information about sysprep: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577 Details about the specific settings can be found in ref.chm of the deployment tools package (deploy.cab on your windows cd).

the setup wallpaper is a CAB compressed bitmap file, located in I386/setup_w.bm_. (If I'm not mistaken)

you are searching for "Sysprep" go ahead and use the search engine.

looks like you got a ZeroConf/APIPA address http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIPA#Choosing_addresses I'd guess either your DHCP server isnt running or it is configured not to give out adresses to your PE. Maybe it uses client-ids , class-ids or something else. Did you try to boot your PE on other hardware? oh and another idea: get some cheap hub, another PC/Laptop with WireShark and hook that up so you can sniff the traffic. Maybe you can find the real problem easier if you can see what happens on the line. -- http://www.wireshark.org/

http://www.openbsd.org BTW: And then there is the question how many holes have been patched with those 30 updates?

well, the manual way would be this: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/ The alternative is to use nLite's driver integration feature.