installing a run-time image in a new device

[Guest]

Hi all,

Is there any way to install a win xpe run-image in to anew device in any
other way than copying the image directily to the device HD? I mean
installing it through a CDROM or PXE server.

I haven't found any article or note abut that.

Kind regards

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Just to clarify - Install to run on a hard drive? Or just a different boot
media?

XPe supports different boot methods: CD-ROM, LAN/PXE, USB flash disk boot,
hard drive, compact Flash, etc. The online help covers these different
methods.

If you want a different deployment to a hard drive, I have been suggesting
if your system supports USB Boot 2.0 to create an XPe image to boot from USB
flash disk. The USB flash disk can be used to transfer the image directly to
a hard drive or download across a network.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[David M. Gauntt]

I use a temporary hard drive and an ethernet connection to deploy to
my Flash drive device. By a temporary hard drive, I mean one that can
be attached or removed with power to the target device off.

First, I set up 2 partitions on the temporary hard drive. Partition
1 contains an XPe Explorer shell image, and Partition 2 contains the
image that I will eventually copy to the Flash drive.

After building a new target configuration on my development system, I
boot the target from Partition 1, and copy the new configuration over
the network to Partition 2. I then reboot from Partition 2, let it
run FBA, then reboot from Parition 1 again. Now I can copy from
Partition 2 to the flash disk.

If you use this approach, be careful about drive letter assignments.
I always make sure that the boot partition is always drive C:; this
means that I have to change HKLM/System/MountedDevices after I copy
the image from Partition 2 to the flash disk. If you are unfamiliar
with this procedure, check out Slobodan Brcin's article on MSDN on
this topic (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/embedded/aa731212.aspx,
"Make Your Runtime Think it's on C:\ While it's on Any Other
Partition")