mbouchard Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 As long as I have been using WinPE I have never had to use the mkimg tool to create a image. Well, I am currently trying to setup a PE disk to install on servers and am trying to build my image using Win2003 and am running into an error when I run the mkimg command. I know it is something that I am doing wrong but am just not sure what that is.Here is what I have:Folder structure for Destination: c:\WinPE2003 with WinPE folder underneath (Contains netcfg and factory)Source: have tried network location, original CD, and local HD (c:\nt\2003 which contains the i386 folder)Command used : c:\WinPE2003\WinPE\mkimg.cmd c:\nt\2003 c:\winPE2003The error I receive:Cannot find C:\\extra.inf fileNot running from a writable directory.Please copy the WinPE directory from CD to a hard disk andexecute mkimg.cmd from that directoryI threw in an echo of the %WINPEOPTDIR% which is where the extra.inf file is supposed to be found and that returns C:\ and I am not sure why that is happening.Thanks,Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Posted a message in the OEM news groups, located here .As I was at a loss.Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 16, 2004 Author Share Posted August 16, 2004 Thanks Dan, will keep an eye out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 17, 2004 Author Share Posted August 17, 2004 I hate when I do "stupid" things. It seems that when I was running the command MKIMG I was running it in a cmd window. The current dir was C: while the mkimg was in C:\winPE2003\WinPE and that was causing the problem. AS soon as I made the current dir in the cmd window C:\winpe2003\winpe mkimg ran with no problems. Live and learn.Thanks for your help Dan.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBaksa Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 I had a feeling it was directory related. Based on the C:\\ that the error was showing.Lets chalk that one up to a .... DOH!We've all been there once or twice!If you script your build process.. toss a line in that will change dir to that location first.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 17, 2004 Author Share Posted August 17, 2004 Normally, I don't need to use Mkimg. I have a couple PE builds (Test, Production) that I use, essentially copied from WinPE 1.0 (If I remember correctly) that I just update as needed. Which has basically been adding Nic drivers. This has been the first time that I have needed a PE disk to work with some servers. I do hate having DOH moments though<G> But it happens.Thanks for the help, now I am just waiting for 1.5 to arrive.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
likuidkewl Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Normally, I don't need to use Mkimg. I have a couple PE builds (Test, Production) that I use, essentially copied from WinPE 1.0 (If I remember correctly) that I just update as needed. Which has basically been adding Nic drivers. This has been the first time that I have needed a PE disk to work with some servers. I do hate having DOH moments though<G> But it happens.Thanks for the help, now I am just waiting for 1.5 to arrive.MikeYou're welsome, although I didn't do much. But I too am waiting for 1.5 to update my PE CD. I don't know what the hold up is, it should have been released. Also I did not end getting 1.5 out of the SMS, there is still no tool in the SMS SP1 suite capable of editting .WIM files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 18, 2004 Author Share Posted August 18, 2004 I have been trying to get ahold of a newer copy of Longhorn as there are rumors that it can burn WIM files. But will need to check that out.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBaksa Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 I have my TAM on this now.. I should have it by next week.I have a beta copy of 1.5 but I don't like wasting time with betas.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 20, 2004 Author Share Posted August 20, 2004 I asked my TAM about this and she could not find any info. Hopefully yours will have better luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBaksa Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Just got my hands on 1.5.Funny... The help file is listing it as PE 2004!Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbouchard Posted August 25, 2004 Author Share Posted August 25, 2004 Cool, Is it a Licensing copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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