SWM (Spanned WIMs)

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I am working on an optical disk-based deployment solution. I hope I'll be able to fit it all on one DVD and use a regular old wim file, but it may end up being too big. I noticed imagex can split wims into swm files, so I tried it out. I split my test wim into 5 swms, then used a third-party program to make 5 iso's (I test on VMs for various reasons, including not having to burn disks), each containing one of the swm files. I booted the VM to WinPE and imagex starts, but then fails. I can't think of a way to make it ask me to change disks when it needs the next swm file. I think I might be able to copy the swm files to the hard drive, and then run imagex referencing all of them at once, but that's a lot of extra steps (ideally, my end users will do little more than change disks). I would like to be able to apply the spanned image directly from a series of disks.

Any ideas?