Cloned Image Weird Behavior

[Guest]

After my image is resealed during FBA, I shutdown and xcopy image to a pen
drive. I have created an El Torito bootable CD that i put the image on and
xcopy it to target after formatting. Once I boot from the target drive after
xcopy /e /h, there is not start button, Ctrl+Esc puts the main menu in the
upper left of my screen. Also when i launch file explorer, only text shows up
and no icons.

If i try running FBA on target and reseal happens, I then reboot without
doing any copying, the image looks fine. Somewhere along the way, the copying
is hosing me. I'm using xcopy with /e /h. One weird thing to point out is
that when i do the xcopy from my el torito boot cd to the target drive, I get
Overwrite file? prompts for several files in the windows\winsxs\manifests
folder. i only get these prompts when copying from el torito cd to target. I
dont get them when i boot winpe and copy post fba image to pen.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tim

 

[Gustaf]

Hi Tim,

I think you got some problems with long filenames when you burn your
image to the bootable cd. I dont think that the CD format supports the
long filenames? Try another burning procedure or transfer your image in
some other way.

I have experienced the exact same problem.

With this deployment I had problems:
1. Build image on dev. machine
2. Burned image to cd.
3. Transfered image from cd in my laptop (PCMCIA) to CF card on a
PCMCIA adapter
4. Booted the CF and experienced the problem.

Whit this deployment all worked ok:
1. Built image on dev machine
2. Transfered image via network to my laptop
3. Transfered image from cd in my laptop (PCMCIA) to CF card on a
PCMCIA adapter
4. All works fine.

Regards,
Gustaf Sandmark

 

[Guest]

Gustaf,

Thanks for your response. I had success transferring images via laptop also.
But, I need a way to transfer images in the field without requiring a laptop.
Have you had any luck using removable media?

Tim

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Tim,

Simple option would be to RAM boot temporary small XPe image from pen drive and then start self extracting zip file that will unpack
your post FBA image to disk of your liking.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

Be careful with using zip to restore files. Zip does not save file security
info, which might be important.

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[Guest]

Self-extracting zip files do not preserve file attributes either. I'm using
NTFS on target also. I dont think xcopy is going to work.

any other ideas?

 

[Mark K Vallevand]

I use a raw binary image. I wrote my own program to copy the contents of
the Compact Flash (my disk) to a file. But, XCopy will work. There are a
bunch of options, and you can get the file copied correctly.

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[Gustaf]

Hi Tim,

I have succesfully transfered the image with the dd (convert and copy)
utility with a linux boot cd including my image.

There is also a dd clone for windows that works for transfering an
image.
This tools does not do any conversion so you need to setup your CF
partition data etc..
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm

You could put your image either on a customized linux boot cd, linux
boot usb, or maybe some windows preinstallation environment (with the
dd for windows clone)

Regards,
Gustaf Sandmark