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    WinPE 2.0 adding application

    in Windows PE

    Posted · Edited by randalldale

    Hi guys,

    Real quick is there anyway to add an MSI application to WinPE 2.0 or install during boot?

    I need to run a data migration utility that has to be installed as it can not run through command line.

    After some checking it appears that MsiExec.exe is not installed in WinPE 2.0 is there a way to integrate it so that I can run msi installs from WinPE?

    UPDATE:

    Ok, I was thinking of doing an install on a Vista based machine and then matching the registry on the WinPE 2.0 system by mountrw the edit the registry hive. At the moment I'm having an issue getting Vista to mount the winpe boot.wim file.

    Any thoughts anyone?

    Thanks,

    Randy

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    Sysprep not recognizing drivers...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    Well I will try using just the registry setting becasue nothing in sysprep seems to work.

    Here is what I tried:

    [unattended]

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

    [GuiUnattended]

    AdminPassword=""

    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

    AutoLogon=Yes

    AutoLogonCount=2

    OEMSkipRegional=1

    OemSkipWelcome=1

    [unattend]

    UnattendMode=DefaultHide

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    OemPreinstall=Yes

    UnattendSwitch=Yes

    TargetPath=\WINDOWS

    OemPNPDriversPath="c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf1\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf2\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf3\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf4\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf5\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf6\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf7\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\APPS\PROSETDX\Win32\DRIVERS\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO100\Win32\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO1000\Win32\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf9\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\10\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\11\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\12\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\13\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\14;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\15\;"

    WaitForReboot=No

    [userData]

    Also tried:

    InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

    OemPNPDriversPath="\$oem$\inf\;\$oem$\inf1\;\$oem$\inf2\;\$oem$\inf3\;\$oem$\inf4\;\$oem$\inf5\;\$oem$\inf6\;\$oem$\inf7\;\$oem$\inf8\;\$oem$\inf8\APPS\PROSETDX\Win32\DRIVERS\;\$oem$\inf8\PRO100\Win32\;\$oem$\inf8\PRO1000\Win32\;\$oem$\inf9\;\$oem$\inf\10\;\$oem$\inf\11\;\$oem$\inf\12\;\$oem$\inf\13\;\$oem$\inf\14;\$oem$\inf\15\;"

    InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\

    OemPNPDriversPath="\i386\$oem$\inf\;\i386\$oem$\inf1\;\i386\$oem$\inf2\;\i386\$oem$\inf3\;\i386\$oem$\inf4\;\i386\$oem$\inf5\;\i386\$oem$\inf6\;\i386\$oem$\inf7\;\i386\$oem$\inf8\;\i386\$oem$\inf8\APPS\PROSETDX\Win32\DRIVERS\;\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO100\Win32\;\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO1000\Win32\;\i386\$oem$\inf9\;\i386\$oem$\inf\10\;\i386\$oem$\inf\11\;\i386\$oem$\inf\12\;\i386\$oem$\inf\13\;\i386\$oem$\inf\14;\i386\$oem$\inf\15\;"

    InstallFilesPath=C:\

    OemPNPDriversPath="c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf1\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf2\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf3\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf4\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf5\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf6\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf7\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\APPS\PROSETDX\Win32\DRIVERS\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO100\Win32\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf8\PRO1000\Win32\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf9\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\10\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\11\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\12\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\13\;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\14;c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf\15\;"

    None worked any ideas?

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    Sysprep not recognizing drivers...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    After a couple of days I'm still not having a lot of success.

    Still working on it though... just seems to only work with complete statements in both the sysprep.inf and Registry. I had thought that it would have been a little more intuative. I mean all my unattends only need to know where to look (InstallFilesPath) and not have to have a registry entry too!

    Plodding onward I guess...

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    Sysprep not recognizing drivers...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    Hmmm... good point.

    I had thought that the install files path listed where the system looked for the drivers i.e. 'c:\sysprep\i386' when installing windows.

    Basically you are saying that my OEMPnPpath statement should have been 'sysprep\i386\inf;sysprep\i386\inf1;...'

    I tried changing the naming structure as suggested, 'sysprep\i386\inf\;sysprep\i386\inf1\;...' and it made no difference.

    I also switched the location of the INF folders to the root of c: and it made no difference, any ideas?

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    Sysprep not recognizing drivers...

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted · Edited by randalldale

    Hey guys,

    I have been here a while and do a lot of unattends but this is my first sysprep image and danged if I can figure out why my driver infs are not being recognized!

    I have located my drivers inside the sysprep folder as such:

    c:\sysprep\i386\inf or c:\sysprep\i386\$oem$\inf and neither one finds a single driver???

    Here is the needed section of my sysprep.inf

    [unattended]

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386

    [GuiUnattended]

    AdminPassword="xxxxxxxx"

    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

    AutoLogon=Yes

    AutoLogonCount=2

    OEMSkipRegional=1

    TimeZone=85

    OemSkipWelcome=1

    [unattend]

    UnattendMode=DefaultHide

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    OemPreinstall=Yes

    UnattendSwitch=Yes

    TargetPath=\WINDOWS

    OemPNPDriversPath="inf\;inf1\;inf2\;inf3\;inf4\;inf5\;inf6\;inf7\;inf8\;inf8\APPS\PROSETDX\Win32\DRIVERS\;inf8\PRO100\Win32\;inf8\PRO1000\Win32\;inf9\;inf\10\;inf\11\;inf\12\;inf\13\;inf\15\;"

    WaitForReboot=No

    [setupMgr]

    DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386

    DistShare=windist

    I hate acting like a NOOBE here but I'm at a loss as to why the image is not picking up the drivers?

    I should note that I have tried adding a slash to the path statement ("\inf\;\inf1;...) and it still doesn't work.

    I do a sysprep.exe -mini -reseal

    Anyone have any ideas, I'm stumped... :wacko:

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    WinPE 2.0 and Ghost32.exe v11 issues...

    in Windows PE

    Posted

    Problem solved guys,

    I reinstalled Ghost Suite 2.0 and grabbed the file again to test it in a USB thumbdrive. When it worked I moved the original ghost32.exe to the root of the CD thinking it couldn't be embedded and got the same error? Luckly I tried the new file and it worked fine. So I deleted the old file added the new file to the BOOT.WIM and things are working fine.

    So the usual that typically happens did the first file was bad, getting another copy fixed things. But the really weird part was that it worked under WinPE 2005 Server 2003 based.

    Thanks for your thoughts and help on this.

    Randy

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    WinPE 2.0 and Ghost32.exe v11 issues...

    in Windows PE

    Posted

    WinPE 2.0 does not support .NET. But .NET is not required for Ghost v11 either.

    I did setup the BOOT.WIM file with all options as space is not an issue on my installs becasue I use DVDs.

    As far as seeing all my drives, that is not an issue as I even run a .cmd to map a network drive and that completes just fine. I'm able to create .WIM files to the network drive so seeing drives are not an issue.

    The one thing I do have is the ghost32.exe embeded into the BOOT.WIM file under system32. I will try it from a USB thunb drive to see if it makes a difference.

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    WinPE 2.0 and Ghost32.exe v11 issues...

    in Windows PE

    Posted

    Anyone have any idea why ghost32.exe v11 has the disk cloning either to an image or disk grayed out when booting in WinPE 2.0?

    I was told it works in WinPE 2.0 but so far after integrating into the boot.wim file options to clone are grayed out???

    Thanks for your insight as usual.

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    WinPE 2.0 and running a virtual floppy

    in Windows PE

    Posted

    I was wondering has anyone attempted to run a virtual floppy from within WinPE 2.0 to do udpates?

    I need to be able to boot winpe 2.0 and run a virtual floppy to make some changes to the BIOS, as the tool I have only works in DOS, before installing the OS.

    Anyone have any ideas.

    Thanks for your help,

    Randy

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    WinPE 2005 rebooting from HTA

    in Windows PE

    Posted

    Hello,

    First thanks for all the insightful information. Now on to the fun.

    I install XP SP2 through an unattend.txt and I'm using HTA files to get user information so that I can dynamically build the unattend.txt and runonce.cmd files. Once my HTA file finishes copying I can't seem to figure out the scritping to tell WinPE to reboot.

    I know that on WinPE 2.0 you just script 'wpeutil reboot' to restart the PC and begin the setup. But nothing I've tried seems to work on WinPE 2005.

    Is there anything that will work from a .BAT, HTA or VBS file that I can use to tell the system to restart once I finsh copying and execute the winnt32.exe?

    I know it is probably something simple I'm missing.

    Things I've tried:

    objWShell.Run ("cmd.exe shutdown -r")

    objWShell.Run ("exit")

    objWShell.SendKeys "exit"

    Thanks for the help,

    Randy

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    HP NC4400 Sysprep masstoragedrivers BSOD

    in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

    Posted

    i have a NC4400 with SATA in native mode and i am deploying a syspreped image to it on first boot it BSOD loops as per the Storage Drivers scenario as if i disable native mode the image works fine.

    My sysprep.inf

    [unattended]

    oemskipeula=Yes

    InstallFilesPath=c:\sysprep\i386

    UpdateInstalledDrivers=Yes

    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

    KeeppageFile=

    ExtendOEmPartition=1

    .....

    [sysprepmassstorage]

    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC0106=C:\D\M\IN\1\O\IAAHCI.INF

    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27DF=C:\D\C\I\XP\ICH7IDE.INF

    The above two storage drivers were confirmed from device manager:

    NC4400 (NATIVE ENABLED)

    Intel® 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 27DF

    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27DF

    Intel® 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller

    PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C5&CC_0106

    Primary IDE Channel

    PRIMARY_IDE_CHANNEL

    Am i missing some other options in the unattended section?

    i have not used the Oempnpdriverspath as i have used devpath to populate the reg key with all the relevent paths.

    Thanks

    Nigel

    Nigel,

    If you look in the Sata driver readme from HP there are instructions on how to make the Mass Storage work for the ICH7 family in unattends or sysprep systems.

    I actually do multisystem unattends on DVDs for HP under different contracts and have been scripting the SATA drivers for quite some time.

    Randy

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    BDD 2007 not creating ISO

    in Unattended Windows Vista/Server 2008

    Posted

    Ok guys little help please,

    I'm getting an error during the 'Update' function of a 'Deployment Point' that states "distribution share does not contain the required "Boot" directory. Please ensure that you have created and updated the lab deployment point..."

    I have no idea how to update lab deployment point nor where to put it and can't seem to find it in any of the help files or instructions.

    Any one have any ideas?

    Thanks...

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