I have been doing something close to this for the past couple of years. Here is what I currently do with XP, I am working with vista now too, but vista images span to many DVDs! Create my sysprep'd image. (Ghost) Create PE bootable CD. Modify the startnet.cmd to include two things. 1st it does a start /wait on ghost to run (which has the image name hard coded in the command line). I did find out the hard way when doing this be sure to have 1 prompt, or you can wipe a pc out just by booting the DVD. Once the start /wait is complete a 3rd party free download checks for cd/dvd roms and ejects them. Place the image inside the boot.wim (then, no need to determine what the drive letter is, its always X) Compile the boot.wim. There is a switch in Oscdimg which I beleive is -m that will allow you to write an PE iso larger than 700mb Burn the dvd. My setup does this: Turn PC on press f12 for boot sequence choose dvd ghost prompts for "are you sure?" ghost exits and runs cd rom eject pc reboots and the mini-config runs I have been playing with the xml's, but ghost is so much faster. Deployment time is more important to me than the cost of a ghost license, we have quite a few machines. The partition sizes are built into the image and there is no need for me to fdisk, format, etc. While I know ghost may not be an answer for some, I thought I throw this out there.
