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This is for a bare metal install of XPSP2 slipstreamed on multiple hardware platforms using nLite, I can do the install great, it's super quick and XP works on several different laptop/desktops, but I'm unsure of how to do the driver integration within WinPE... all the white papers and documentation I've come across is somewhat cryptic and assumes a level of knowledge regarding PE I don't quite have yet but am working on. Thanks for the headsup on WPEUTIL, I ran wpeutil initializenetwork, but it failed with STATUS 0x800704b8.

I know it's supposed to be there... I just can't seem to make it work. I've been looking for guides/tutorials/anything to help... when my winpe loads it just does wpeinit and that's it... nothing else. Is there a noobie guide to getting things working, or what? To let you know, I've successfully altered my build somewhat to include a diskpart.ini, and then do an unattended XP install from the DVD that it's booting from, however, I'd like network support BEFORE I install from the DVD to also get some stuff from my network... I tried running netcfg -winpe, it loaded tcpip6, msclient, and netbiod, I then started the Workstation service... but I don't know what's next, if I do an IPCONFIG it's empty... help?

Ok, well, it worked, nlite + winpe for the win.

Here's what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to combine a WinPE bootable CD/DVD with my newly created nLite build... the purpose, to boot into winpe, fdisk/format/install using winnt32 with the winnt.sif that nLite creates... that's my end result... I've just now used ISOBuster to open the WinPE disk I made, took it's bootsector and assoctiated file structure, added it to the nLite source, and set the bootsector to custom, and the extracted .img for the bootsector. I let nLite make the ISO, and I'm now burning it... I'm HOPING this works but... ? Is there an easier way? Should I just use a winbom.ini, have I missed a step or a config piece, maybe a 3rd party tool, etc... ?

I'll try it mounting it thanks. Do you know the Nero settings to get the proper Joliet settings?

When nLite builds the ISO and I burn it, everything is fine. However a few times I had to take the ISO, extract all the info, make some changes that nLite doesn't do, and then burn the extrated/altered data... I know this is where the problem is, however I can't seem to overcome it. When I watch Nero burn the ISO, it burns it as JOLIET... I can't seem to recreate this with Nero on my own, and that's my problem.

I'm having a problem with something, I thought it was nLite initially, but now I'm not sure. I've read the past topics on this and have tried a few things to correct it to no avail. Here's the problem... I slipstream a bunch of stuff to an XPSP2 build, when I let nLite build the iso, and then burn it I have no problems... however when I have nLite just create my installation directory, then burn it, XP thinks I'm missing some files: cyclad-z.in_ cyclom-y.in_ minipl~1.wm_ utopia~1.wa_ utopia~2.wa_ utopia~3.wa_ utopia~4.wa_ sv-262e1.pn_ sv-262e3.pn_ sv-262e4.pn_ So... I noticed when Nero burns my disc with my custom boot sector, it burns the files without hyphens(-) or tildes(~). After all the searching it seems this is because of some Joliet burning format nonsense... well I've tried EVERY setting Nero has, nothing works. I tried GUI CDImage program, that didn't work... so what's the deal? I can have my bootsector rename the files after I copy the i386 to C:, but that's a quick fix, I want a REAL solution ya know? I don't get why this is suddenly a problem. Help please.