neuro42 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 (edited) Okay ran the Windows AIK worked through a couple of issues with documentation (had to add {bootmgr} to one of hte last bcdedit setsAnyway.Get it booted up on my removable media LESS laptop. Ditched the standard boot file for pxeboot.com (going to ditch that too so I dont have to F12 tGet the command prompt). Have access to the files on the ramdrive. I am familiar with net use, as I managed to get windows XP installed by using pxelinux to load a netboot barts PE floppy image, and net use to the share and running winnt.Now I would like to go full straight up correct net install (without RIS)So made the PE disk. Get it on to the laptop and...No network capability whatsover. System Error 1231.I have read 5 differnet explanaiations and tried 4.5 of them Would have tried the 5th, but it invlovs making an answer file and that advice was 2 years old. I am using PE 2. But I triedI ran Win SIM and tried to create a unattended.XML file so that I could preset hte DHCP settings. Cant jsut create one so I load the winpe.wim and getthe catalouge error. Ignore and I can not make any changed after I navigate down to ipv4 tcp/ip settings.ArghAny ideas? I just want network access so I can do a real install and maybe even do a winFLP install (it is a older laptop).thanksOh yah should point out none of the NET works as ipconfig returns no values on anything. ping returns system error. Can I build an old school SIF file fro mthe XP days? I read the unattend.XML is basically impossible to hand code... Edited February 3, 2007 by neuro42 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Sounds like you need to add the correct drivers to your WinPE WIM file.You can do this by using the peimg command, the whole thing is described in the WAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p4ntb0y Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Yes you can add the drivers in offline mode by using "peimg /inf=Inf_path"or load the drivers in Online mode by using "drvload.exe inf_path "No if your using any of the broadcom drivers that have a the virtual bus ie Multifuction types like the nc373i you will need to load the ris drivers and not the normal drivers.As said before all of this is in the Winpe.chm within the windows aik dir.You can get the ris drivers either from an earlier post or head over to the broadcome site (depending if you have broadcom)not sure what card you have you can run devon or driverquery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuro42 Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Is on a Dell Latitude c400 so the driver is the 3com 59x serires..I got the drivers and am rebuilding the image now. Mount using imageX and then using the /inf method. HAving a little trouble with it though as I cant find the finished .wim file. I did it before so obviously im a just missing something. thanks for the help guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) Dont know if this will help you, but normally the process goes like this, remember the wimfile should be a working winpe which has been sealed previously.imagex /mountrw wimfile imageindex pathpeimg /inf ....imagex /commit /unmount pathNow the drivers have been added to the wimfile Edited February 5, 2007 by ubernerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuro42 Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Dont know if this will help you, but normally the process goes like this, remember the wimfile should be a working winpe which has been sealed previously.imagex /mountrw wimfile imageindex pathpeimg /inf ....imagex commit /unmount pathNow the drivers have been added to the wimfileYah I just tried doing that (followed all the Docs) Even went so far as to use C:\winpe_x86 instead of D: where I was doing all my stuff before.Rany copy arch C:\ imagex /mountrwpeimg /preppeimg /infimagex /unmountcopy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim d:\PXE\bootNetbooted laptop and still nothing.imagex /mount D:\PXE\boot\winpe.wimBrowse to drivers folder and my new drivers are not their even though it said during the /inf that they installed successfully also tried running drvload... but got a no such command error... so I am assuming thats a command for after you boot up(yah just tried it on laptop but since the INF never actually installed to the WIM file, I am at a loss) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) imagex /mountrwpeimg /preppeimg /infimagex /unmountDo not run /prep before you run /inf and remember to use imagex with /commit /unmount to actually make changes to the wim file. Edited February 5, 2007 by ubernerd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuro42 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 imagex /mountrwpeimg /preppeimg /infimagex /unmountDo not run /prep before you run /inf and remember to use imagex with /commit /unmount to actually make changes to the wim file.Yah i knew about /commit.But couldnt run /inf without running /prep first as it was considered "Not a valid windows image file" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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