Jazkal Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Wait.. how do you modify the sysprep.inf file before the reboot? This is the part I'm confused about. Is your sysprep file sitting on the network share or WDS server or is it sitting on the sysprepped machine?Personally, I use a HTA or VBS script. The sysprep.inf is on the imaged machine, once you apply the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blah888 Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 This is very interesting so I tried it out in VMWare.. here is what I did..1. use ghost to layed down a Syspreped image onto a new VM Machine.2. Boot up PE and run imagex /capture c: and saved the WIM to a network share.3. created a new VM machine, and boot up WinPE.4. Diskpart the new drive and format it to NTFS5. run imagex /apply the.wim back to C:In the VM preped with ghost in step 1, a reboot will cause the VM go into mini-setup, but in the VM applied with ImageX, it bluescreens at me.anyone have any suggestions? Is this a VM issue? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pankajtakawale Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 This is very interesting so I tried it out in VMWare.. here is what I did..1. use ghost to layed down a Syspreped image onto a new VM Machine.2. Boot up PE and run imagex /capture c: and saved the WIM to a network share.3. created a new VM machine, and boot up WinPE.4. Diskpart the new drive and format it to NTFS5. run imagex /apply the.wim back to C:In the VM preped with ghost in step 1, a reboot will cause the VM go into mini-setup, but in the VM applied with ImageX, it bluescreens at me.anyone have any suggestions? Is this a VM issue? thanks.I tried it on VM instance only. Only difference between your and my steps are:Instead of your (1) step , I install OS on VM manually - then syspreped it.You can try followin steps:1. deploy normal (NOT syspreped) image to new VM m/c2. sysprep itand then ur normal steps.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazkal Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 In your syspreped image, have you included the vmware IDE or SCSI drivers in the mass storage section? if not, it will BSOD on you anytime you try and use that image on VMWare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifufer Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Is there any way, after doing the wim image, to use WinFLP or LH installer to format and apply the wim image, as Dexter inside does?thank you in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBaksa Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Has anyone dealt with System partitions?I have several peices of hardware that require system partitons (older hardware but we stil use it and I have to support it)My issue is that the System partition is a hidden partition with no drive letter assigned.ImageX can't deal with this partition like PQIDeploy or Ghost.Has anyone been sucessful with imagaing and deploying a system partition using imageX?I am told I have to play with it by actually making the sys partiton active and assigning a drive letterThen Imaging it.And when I deply it.. doing the same in reverse. Deploy as C:... then hide it and mark as non bootable.Thats lot of work in my book....I'm curious if anyone has tackled this yet and if they would post the code thay used.Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubernerd Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Has anyone dealt with System partitions?I have several peices of hardware that require system partitons (older hardware but we stil use it and I have to support it)My issue is that the System partition is a hidden partition with no drive letter assigned.ImageX can't deal with this partition like PQIDeploy or Ghost.Has anyone been sucessful with imagaing and deploying a system partition using imageX?I am told I have to play with it by actually making the sys partiton active and assigning a drive letterThen Imaging it.And when I deply it.. doing the same in reverse. Deploy as C:... then hide it and mark as non bootable.Thats lot of work in my book....I'm curious if anyone has tackled this yet and if they would post the code thay used.ChrisIf the datafiles on the partition is readable by Windows/WinPE, it should be possible, remember ImageX is filebased and not disk/sector based like Ghost/PQIDeploy.It will require some scripting/coding to handle but as you have access to VBScript and WMI from WinPE, it should be fairly easy to solve this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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