VB6 and booting from Ramdrive via RIS

[gadget]

Some of my VB6 programs fail to run when I boot winpe to a ramdrive (pe1.6) and the same seems to be for winpe2. both booting from RIS or WDS.

Any known reason why? Straight RIS or CD boot works fine....

[wrecklesswun]

if you use a ramdrive,somethings to note are the use of a temp/tmp folder on a writable partition such as a ramdrive. these need to be defined as environment variables. Also make sure the drive letters aren't being remapped

[gadget]

Thats not it, found out last night the code is failing at some of the first wmi queries, gonna rewrite the program in .net....

[wrecklesswun]

>net does not work in PE...try enabling WMI and trap errors...

[gadget]

>net does not work in PE...try enabling WMI and trap errors...

You can get a wrapper for .net that will run in pe. Found out what it was, a small jpg on my form was stopping it run, strange...

[Br4tt3]

Well, I dunno why ur are having problems when running the appz from RAM of the RIS box, cause i am using two vb applications in my WinPE build that works just great and just like u said, it is the same as any CD/DVD WinPE boot (in regards to the runtime).

[gadget]

Found out what it was. I had a very small JPG image on a form which was making the code bomb out when run from ramdisk.

You could not make this up.....

[wrecklesswun]

try converting the jpg to png...sometimes depending on the version of the vb runtimes, it has a problem with jpg. Also a problem with the build scripts from ms with the winpe batch files was discovered where the err code or inverse of the wmi install happened.