[yezeiyashein]

Thanks

[ondemandemails]

why m i not able to download the link

[IcemanND]

Working for me.

[UncleSteve]

I am new to imagex and Windows PE and have been struggling with it for days. I have also been trying to use MDT 2008 to deploy Windows XP with no luck (mbr problem I can't get to work). I am in the process of creating my ISO right now.

I just wanted to thank you. I learned a great deal about the whole process already just from going through your instructions. Things I've been trying to figure out...

Steve

[Tripredacus]

I agree. Now that we are using Imagex for production with our new server, I still keep Iceman's guide handy in case I ever need to look at anything. Its better than the OPK documentation and the Vista books we have because its all summarized into one little thing. No need for explaining what a WIM is or why x compression is better than y, etc.

[subassy]

I wanted to thank you for the well-written guide on a technique I didn't even know about. As soon as I find the time I will definitely try it.

Wanted to point out a couple glitches in the document. First one is the following in the Table of contents:
Installing drivers to Windows PE: .............................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined.

But then I'm using FoxIt PDF reader (2.3) so maybe it's just me?

One other detail you may want to change (though it's debatable if changing is necessary) is changing the double quotes in lines like these:
imagex /apply d:\C_Image.wim “Drive C” C:

To the ASCII version (") of double quotes. If someone were to copy/paste directly from the PDF the italicized quotes would show up as a black block or other garbage character. I noticed other places in the document, like the xcopy commands on page 6, you actually do use the ASCII formatted quotes.

The only other subjective suggestion I would make is that of something like an "executive summary". A short paragraph to kind of summarize what you are in essence doing when you create an image this way. In other words when I use the mount command am essentially mounting a volume? Or is that and specific to this one program and has nothing to do with the file system? I mean I write guides and summaries about this stuff anyway because it's just the way I learn new information. And I guess it depends on your target audience. If you wanted to start from perspective of someone who is familiar with concepts but unfamiliar with this new imagex method (like me) it would be better to have a summary like this.

The summary wouldn't be for me, I like following guides anyway.

I also noticed one typo but lost track of it some how. If I find it again I'll post it. Again thanks for the great guide!

This post has been edited by subassy: 15 July 2008 - 03:20 PM

[Kingskawn]

Hi,
It's really cool this guide but I've got 1 question. We have SSCM and want to deploy XP on each machine (different types), Can I distribute XP by using this tutorial? Not just partition the disk I mean.

[IcemanND]

I've not used the SCCM but if you can push a WIM to a machine I don't see why not.

[newuzer]

FYI

In order to be able to mount images in your PE environment, you need to install the wim filter.
I achieved this by adding this line to startnet.cmd.
%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 X:\windows\wimfltr.inf
note: wimfltr.sys needs to be in the same folder as winfltr.inf.

[Nebulis01]

Thank you for the helpful guide.

I had problems with the %architecture% variable in the build_all script. I ended up changing it to x86 and it worked fine. I'm running the latest Windows AIK on an XP Pro SP3 host, shouldn't make any difference.

[geemail.email]

ICEManND,

It's been awhile....glad to see this thread is still active and the guide is getting better all the time.

To that note...I wanted to let you know, I recently rebuilt my boot cd.

Upon doing so, I used
1. WAIK "Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008"
2. Latest set of LAN and MSD drivers from DriverPacks.net (8.05.3)

When including all the MSD drivers, I experienced a BSOD with a "Bad_pool_header" message.
1. I rebuilt the ISO without any of the MSD's and it worked without any issue.
2. I rebuilt again and excluded "D, D1, D2, D3" drivers directory from the DriverPack MSD set. This solved the issue.

Thought you might want to include an update on page 18 of the guide.

Thanks again

[fly]

Wow, this is quality work. **** am I glad that I know about this place.

[ElenaLauder]

@IcemanND

Thank you very much I hope your guide helps us.


@To all

English isn't my power suite, I hope you understand what I need or search!!??
Did I understand that right, that with this guide I can create a hardware neutral Image with Windows Deployment System?
Please help me if I see this diffrent.

We need to create in our company a hardware neutral image because we have many diffrent hardware and I'm responsible
to found any infomations and manuals to can create this scenario.
Can we inject the drivers in Image from www.driverpack.com? Is this right.

Ad did someone have any experience, did somebody do that befor? If it works?

I need any manual or tutorial, for reading stuff is not a problem only a manual that works!!!!!!!

Thank you in advance for helping me and reading my post!!!

Namaste and friendly greetings from Bulgaria!!!!!!
Elena

[IcemanND]

No this guide will not walk you through creating a hardware independent image. It just shows you how to use windows imaging to create and deploy an image file. So you don't have to use say Ghost.

What you want to search for would be either "Universal Image" or "hardware independent image" (HII) there are a few way to get there depending upon what you hardware requirements are.

Where I work rather than putting something together ourselves we bit the bullet and purchased the Universal Imaging Utility. They maintain all of the drivers and handle any required HAL changes and if we have a problem they solve it instead of me having to figure out what went wrong.

[ElenaLauder]

@IcemanND

Ok, so with Windows Deployment Service I can't made a Hardware independent image only with third party tools like *Universal Imaging Utility*, ok thank you very much for helping me!
Namaste and have a nice day!
Elena

[Tripredacus]

ElenaLauder, on Oct 2 2008, 01:33 AM, said:

@IcemanND

Ok, so with Windows Deployment Service I can't made a Hardware independent image only with third party tools like *Universal Imaging Utility*, ok thank you very much for helping me!
Namaste and have a nice day!
Elena

XP images are hardware (HAL, Mass Storage) dependent, but Vista are not. For Vista, generalizing will only remove the display adapter (and unsigned drivers) if redeployed to like hardware.

[fly]

Tripredacus, on Oct 3 2008, 02:41 PM, said:

ElenaLauder, on Oct 2 2008, 01:33 AM, said:

@IcemanND

Ok, so with Windows Deployment Service I can't made a Hardware independent image only with third party tools like *Universal Imaging Utility*, ok thank you very much for helping me!
Namaste and have a nice day!
Elena

XP images are hardware (HAL, Mass Storage) dependent, but Vista are not. For Vista, generalizing will only remove the display adapter (and unsigned drivers) if redeployed to like hardware.

Probably a little offtopic here, but its relatively easy to swap HALs with DEVCON and VBScript. (I'm sure there are even easier ways, but thats what I used long ago...)

[Tripredacus]

fly, on Oct 3 2008, 02:55 PM, said:

Tripredacus, on Oct 3 2008, 02:41 PM, said:

ElenaLauder, on Oct 2 2008, 01:33 AM, said:

@IcemanND

Ok, so with Windows Deployment Service I can't made a Hardware independent image only with third party tools like *Universal Imaging Utility*, ok thank you very much for helping me!
Namaste and have a nice day!
Elena

XP images are hardware (HAL, Mass Storage) dependent, but Vista are not. For Vista, generalizing will only remove the display adapter (and unsigned drivers) if redeployed to like hardware.

Probably a little offtopic here, but its relatively easy to swap HALs with DEVCON and VBScript. (I'm sure there are even easier ways, but thats what I used long ago...)

Yes, this process is covered here as well.
http://www.msfn.org/...is-t115243.html

[cpmit]

On the one hand I'm happy I found this forum with it's hintful links and it's users and that I found exactly what I was looking for since I'm struggling with XP WIMs for deploying by using SCCM 2007, but on the other hand I'm kind of disappointed since I'm not able to download the guide, because I don't seem to have permission to do so and cannot find a valid hint in help why this problem occurs.

But, well, I'm flicking through the pages of this post and might find some crumbs of informations which I probably can use to finally finish my configuration of SCCM 2007.

Nevertheless: a big thanks for the work by making and publishing the guide.

[ismaelhaider]

help


I have two Computers PC 'A' and PC 'B'

I have Installed Wins Server 2008 and some applications on PC 'A'.

Now I want to make WIM image on Pc 'A', and Apply on the PC 'B'.

I have installed AIK and MDT 2008,
now Please tell me how i do this .
what are the steps .

but my PC 'A' and PC 'B' hardware is different like Graphics card motherboard , When I apply PC 'A' image on PC 'B'
Then the Drivers are not compatible, What is the solution .