Windows XP and WDS

RGB09 · June 18, 2009

Hi Guy's this is just a simple question, and maybe someone can help me with some tips and suggestions. I have been trying to deploy/capture an XP image from a HP DC7900 ultra-slim form PC. I have deployed images before with RIS with no problems, but now I am trying to use WDS to image and deploy to the aforementioned PC's.

I have follwed the instructions on this site, I have even managed to inject the NIC drivers, unfortunately I am still trying to find the correct ones.

A couple of questions to start with;

1- if I want to capture an XP machine, does it have to have the pre-installed version of XP, the one that is on the recovery disc, or can I use any ISO version?

2- has anyone successfully captured and deployed an XP machine? if so how did you do it?

Sorry to be a pain, but I have serched the net for this but everything thing seems to be on deploying Vista or Server 2008....

Any help would be appreciated :rolleyes:

anyweb · June 19, 2009

the capture WDS should function just as stated in the guide, have you tried it yet ? what problems did you see ?

RGB09 · June 19, 2009

the capture WDS should function just as stated in the guide, have you tried it yet ? what problems did you see ?

Thanks for getting back so quick, I think my problem is a driver issue if I have understood it right. I get as far as loading the image I want to capture window, and when I try to copy it to the server after a while it errors and say's "The network location cannot be reached". I never had this problem before in my previous place of work. Would you know which *.inf file or drivers I have to inject for a HP DC7900 ultra-slim form PC? which runs Windows XP SP2?

I have tried both the vista and xp drivers. Help!!!!

anyweb · June 19, 2009

you need to add the Windows Vista network drivers for your computer to the BOOT.WIM file that you created in this post

you can use imageX to do that

RGB09 · June 20, 2009

you need to add the Windows Vista network drivers for your computer to the BOOT.WIM file that you created in this post

you can use imageX to do that

Once again thanks... I will try to locate the correct drivers

RGB09 · June 22, 2009

Once again thanks... I will try to locate the correct drivers

This is proving more difficult than I thought! I have installed/injected every Vista NIC driver for this PC and I still get the error message... does any one have any other suggestions I could try... this is now getting really desperate!!!

RGB09 · June 26, 2009

Still no luck on the drivers front, I have tried injecting drivers from the Intel site and also the HP site, I even tried the XP drivers for RIS to see if they made any difference!

Is there anyone out there who has successfully deployed and captured an image for the HP DC 7900 ultra-slim or slim form PC?

CAN ANY-ONE HELP....PLEASE!!!!

anyweb · June 28, 2009

give me a download link for the driver you tried please

RGB09 · June 30, 2009

give me a download link for the driver you tried please

Thanks for your help... here is the HP link

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechS...&taskId=135

I ended up injecting all the drivers from here in the end

anyweb · June 30, 2009

you only need to add NETWORK drivers to boot.wim (or storage, but thats not your problem)

whcih boot.wim file did you update ?

anyweb · June 30, 2009

ok i've created a boot.wim file for you to import into WDS and test

to create it I used my windows server 2008 DVD, i then imported the boot.wim file from the dvd into wds and once in there i made the boot.wim file OFFLINE

i then located the file and it's location was d:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\boot.wim

i then created a temp folder on c: called c:\mount

i then opened an Administrator command prompt and changed directory to the WAIK imagex tools

here are the commands I used to inject the 4 INF files into the boot.wim, first though you have to identify the boot index number from within the boot.WIM file

Imagex /info Drive:\remoteinstall\boot\x86\images\boot.wim

Notes:

• Drive:\remoteinstall represents the path at which the Remoteinstall folder is installed.

• Boot.wim is the name of the boot image.

Note the boot index number of the bootable image that is displayed. To identify the boot index number, locate the line that contains "boot index: X."

Note X is the boot index number. The number indicates that image number X is marked as bootable and that the image is to be updated. The second image is the default image that you would typically modify.

C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86>

imagex /mountrw d:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86\Images\boot.wim 2 c:\mount

ImageX Tool for Windows

Mounting (RW): [d:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86\Images\boot.wim, 2] ->

[c:\mount]

Successfully mounted image (RW).

C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\x86>cd ..

C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools>cd PETools