Just wondering what the purpose of the CONFIG-EXTRA.INF file is.

From what I can see the contents of CONFIG.INF and CONFIG-EXTRA.INF are the same. Not only that but mkimg.cmd appears to just overwrite CONFIG-EXTRA.INF anyways.

Just trying to learn the WinPE (Microsoft) build process to better customize it.

Cheers

Have you tried looking in the OPK.chm or the WinPE.chm?

Have you tried looking in the OPK.chm or the WinPE.chm?

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If you take a closer look at MKIMG.CMD you'll see that after overwriting config-extra.inf, mkimg.cmd uses bldini.exe to add additional entries to config-extra.inf

REM
REM initialize config-extra.inf
REM
set ADDREG="Add Registry Existing"
set CONFIG_EXTRA=config-extra.inf
copy config.inf config-extra.inf 1>nul 2>&1

REM
REM Parse the remaining optional arguments
REM

shift

:parseargument
shift
set CURRENTARG=%1

if "%CURRENTARG%" == "" (
goto :donewithargs
)

if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/nosxs" (
set SKIPWINSXS=yes
goto :parseargument
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/nover" (
set VERSION_CHECK=no
goto :parseargument
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/config" (
goto :getconfigfile
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/binaries" (
set SRCDIRBINS=yes
goto :getbuildarch
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/pnp" (
set EXTRAARGS=%EXTRAARGS% /pnp
bldini %CONFIG_EXTRA% %ADDREG% software .\wpefeat.inf,Pnp
goto :parseargument
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/wmi" (
set WMISUPPORT=yes
REM set CONFIGFILE=configwmi.inf
set EXTRAARGS=%EXTRAARGS% /wmi
bldini %CONFIG_EXTRA% %ADDREG% software     .\wpefeat.inf,Wmi
bldini %CONFIG_EXTRA% %ADDREG% software     .\wmisoftware.inf,AddReg
bldini %CONFIG_EXTRA% %ADDREG% setupreg.hiv .\wmisystem.inf,AddReg
goto :parseargument
) else if /i "%CURRENTARG%" == "/nowf" (
set ICF_FEATURE=.\wpefeat.inf,NoIcf
set ICF_SWITCH=
goto :parseargument
) else (
set IMAGENAME=%CURRENTARG%
set CREATEIMG=yes
goto :parseargument
)

REM
REM We are done with args
REM
goto :donewithargs

Looking at the above, you can see that this is where additional entries are added if you specify any of the command line parameters (/PNP, /WMI, /NOWF)

You can verify this by running mkimg with one of the switches (/PNP for example) and compare config.inf to config-extra.inf

I've added commands into mkimg.cmd to add the necessary registry entries for a Ramdrive, because I keep forgetting to add them before calling oscdimg.

I'm actually just about to test this.

[EDIT]

Just realised, for this to actually work, you need to pass an .inf file to bldini, rather than a .reg file.

[/EDIT]

Edited September 11, 200520 yr by kiwidave