clivebuckwheat Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Is it possible to compress Winpe 3.0 so it has faster load times over a network boot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joakim Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 A wim packed with maximum compression is rather hard to beat. I doubt you will find anything better..Joakim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 What kind of speeds are we talking about here? I haven't timed mine on a PXE boot but its about 4 minutes, and weighs in a little under 200MB.EDIT: also, I wanted to add, do you mean the TFTP speed or the total time from F12 until the PE finishes loading on the client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joakim Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Rumours have it that booting over HTTP outperforms TFTP in terms of transfer speed over network, but I've not yet seen comprehensive and detailed test results/measurements for this..Joakim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 Rumours have it that booting over HTTP outperforms TFTP in terms of transfer speed over network, but I've not yet seen comprehensive and detailed test results/measurements for this..JoakimThe results of those tests might also depend on the network and the server's capabilities. My server's TFTP speed is less than 10 seconds, I'd like to say 6 seconds but I haven't timed it, just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle710 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 How would you compress the wim file. In WinPE 2 there was a command yet in WinPE 3 I cannot find the command or argument to pass in order to compress maximum. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 In Windows 7 WAIK, DISM does not do everything. Some functions such as Export are still done with Imagex.imagex /export D:\imaging\data.wim 1 D:\imaging\sample.wimDISM /Cleanup-WimI believe after you export the WIM, you mount the image with DISM before running the cleanup.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744382%28WS.10%29.aspxhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799302%28WS.10%29.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle710 Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 I thought for creating WIMs in WinPE 3 you could only use dism? Can you still create wim files for WinPE 3 using images as I have done for WinPE 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 Well the things that DISM can't do, Technet seems to say use Imagex.exe for those. For example, DISM does not have an export WIM option. That part was on a different page I looked up. I wonder why they keep Imagex around, or maybe some day in the future DISM will totally replace it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle710 Posted March 20, 2010 Share Posted March 20, 2010 Well the things that DISM can't do, Technet seems to say use Imagex.exe for those. For example, DISM does not have an export WIM option. That part was on a different page I looked up. I wonder why they keep Imagex around, or maybe some day in the future DISM will totally replace it?The only command removed then was peimg. So if I have WAIK 3 installed I could still edit WinPE 2images using imagex? I just cant add drivers I suppose unless the dism can modify WInPE 2 files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 No unfortunately you can't service a Vista image with the 7 WAIK. At first, I got around this by using Win7 Tools on my main Server and put Vista Tools on another one. Eventually I ended up putting my WinPE 2.x boot images into retirement and created all new WinPE 3.0 images for deployment. But no, now I have Vista images (or even XP) that I can't do anything with besides regular image maintenance like mount/unmount and export/delete. I cannot put drivers into Vista images, so if I need to make one I have to use my unattend DVD each time. I still have some generic SP1 images I can use, but early on somehow I corrupted my Vista Ultimate image with DISM and had to delete it.As far as my job goes, Vista was never very popular, and once Windows 7 went RTM no one wants Vista, so I kinda lucked out. Its actually funny now, if I see a system come through with Vista on it, I go and make sure someone didn't make a mistake! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle710 Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 No unfortunately you can't service a Vista image with the 7 WAIK. At first, I got around this by using Win7 Tools on my main Server and put Vista Tools on another one. Eventually I ended up putting my WinPE 2.x boot images into retirement and created all new WinPE 3.0 images for deployment. But no, now I have Vista images (or even XP) that I can't do anything with besides regular image maintenance like mount/unmount and export/delete. I cannot put drivers into Vista images, so if I need to make one I have to use my unattend DVD each time. I still have some generic SP1 images I can use, but early on somehow I corrupted my Vista Ultimate image with DISM and had to delete it.As far as my job goes, Vista was never very popular, and once Windows 7 went RTM no one wants Vista, so I kinda lucked out. Its actually funny now, if I see a system come through with Vista on it, I go and make sure someone didn't make a mistake!LOL....awesome how you cant update Vista images with WAIK 7. They should have made them universal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 No unfortunately you can't service a Vista image with the 7 WAIK. At first, I got around this by using Win7 Tools on my main Server and put Vista Tools on another one. Eventually I ended up putting my WinPE 2.x boot images into retirement and created all new WinPE 3.0 images for deployment. But no, now I have Vista images (or even XP) that I can't do anything with besides regular image maintenance like mount/unmount and export/delete. I cannot put drivers into Vista images, so if I need to make one I have to use my unattend DVD each time. I still have some generic SP1 images I can use, but early on somehow I corrupted my Vista Ultimate image with DISM and had to delete it.As far as my job goes, Vista was never very popular, and once Windows 7 went RTM no one wants Vista, so I kinda lucked out. Its actually funny now, if I see a system come through with Vista on it, I go and make sure someone didn't make a mistake!LOL....awesome how you cant update Vista images with WAIK 7. They should have made them universal.I complained about it to my MS rep, and they forwarded the request along. Hopefully an update comes out to handle it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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