WinPE download large files from http

[officinale85]

Hi,

 

Actually I want to make an fully automated installation script of WindowsImage through WinPE.

Everything I created worked fine and I can load image file directly from USB drive or from network location.

Now I want want to go next step and load the image file from http server. Actually we are adapting often the image file, so we want a source were we always have the actual one for international locations.

 

So I tried to use this one with PS in WinPE:

$source = "http://yoursite.com/file.xml"$destination = "c:\application\data\newdata.xml" Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination

Download works but really really slowly, so for a 4Gb image it would take about 4 hours and this is really too slow.

 

After that I tried with module BitsTransfer, but didn't work, I asked in MSTN, they told me Bits is not available in WinPE.

 

So maybe you have an alternative method/idea which would work?

[jaclaz]

Random thoughts, but you could try using httpdisk (or curl or winhttp), see (only seemingly unrelated) here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156869-get-waik-tools-wo-downloading-the-huge-isos/

http://reboot.pro/topic/13049-extract-files-out-of-waik-without-downloading-whole-waik-first/

 

jaclaz