bigjoe

Hello, DETAILS: I am using the Windows Server 2003 SP1 OPK CD for WinPE source and a Windows XP VL copy with SP2 slipstreamed. RESULTS: I have found a problem when using the mkimg.cmd to create a winxp sp2 based winpe build. When I use this command with the /pnp switch it fails to copy amdk8.sys because this file DOES NOT appear to exist in WinXP SP2 in the i386 directory and as a result doesn't get added when you build a SP2 slipstreamed source. Secondly, this file DOES appear on a windows 2003 server w/SP1 source cd and works when using it as a source to generate a WinPE build. Lastly, it is my understanding that you need to create your WinPE build with the /pnp switch or you will be unable to inject additional drivers into it. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thank you, Big Joe

Spamcram, If your fortunate enough to have a licensing agreement that permits use of WinPE, it will be available to you. However, you have to log in to the licensing site and request it, MS does not send it automatically with your regular shipment of CD's. This product is typically only available to OEM's and very large IT shops. WinPE is the new preferred 32-bit pre-installation environment (i.e. they want you to use this instead of the old MS-DOS network client 3.1). Fear not, there is an alternative which may help you, that's Bart's PE. I have included the link below. http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ This isn't an MS product but accomplishes alot of the same things that WinPE does. I've also read somewhere where it may be possible to add BartPE as a RIS menu option. There are a few lowcost add-ons to RIS that would allow you to do just that. Here is one; http://www.emboot.com/products_risme.htm The following site has also proven invaluable to me when automating builds as well. http://unattended.msfn.org Hope this helps Bigjoe P.S. you will still need to include the "Repartition=no" setting in your .sif file, otherwise you'll get the single NTFS partition

Hi Spamcram, One of the shortcomings of RIS is that it creates one partition period. There is a setting under the following category of unattended.txt, however this setting is only useable when installing directly from a CD. You would have to use another utility such as WinPE to create the partitions and then run your RIS client install. [unattended] Repartition=No Sorry, Bigjoe

FYI, Flashboot! exactly what your looking for, unfortunately it has a price tag. I don't know if there are any compareable free programs. http://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/index.php Bigjoe