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WinPE 2.0 and VMware


snwtoy

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This may be a long shot, but does anyone know how to get the network running from winpe 2.0 when booted in VMware.

I assume it's a driver issue, as the machine is not getting any ip address, and network services fail to start when I try them. If that's the case, what drivers need to be injected into the PE image, and how?

If there's more to it than drivers, what's the process to get it working? I get the same problem when booting the image into VPC 2007 beta.

Cheers.

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I had similar problems despite injecting the vmware drivers offline and then recompiling.

It appears that the default WinPE image does not enable the protocols and so on, and this needs to be either added to a batch file, such as StartNet.cmd, or manually invoked from a command line.

I ammended StartNet.cmd so that it has the following at the start

wpeinit ; should be in there by default

netcfg -v -winpe ; added this manually

After doing that, things worked fine, and picked up an IP from my DHCP server immediately.

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