Deployment XPE image

[Michel REYDET]

Hi,

I need to deployment my XPE Image and I don’t find a
solution in TD and Remote Boot Management documentation.
I use 8 different targets with a different space volumes.
I would like use the Remote Boot function for install the
targets (the target Volumes are not partitioning).

Could you help me ?


Michel

 

[Slobodan Brcin]

I'm doing on different remote install and update procedures for last two
weeks. All revolves around RAM boot from SDI file.
Then you can use network, cd, or usb flash disk boot from same SDI file. If
well prepared, it will work on all types of devices, AMD, Intel processors,
or any MB.
Problem with this is than after FBA completes, you need to do too many
offline registry modification.

I'll give you few big phases what you need to accomplish, not how to do
this.

1. Create SDI file that can be booted on any device.
- It should completely rely on XPE PNP mechanism. To be able to use this
many registry entries should be deleted.
- XPE should do clean detect of present HDDs and partitions, so it won't
hide your present partitions.
- In this image you could place compressed image that will be deployed. (I
don't use this since I want to be able to easily change working image)
2. You need to create batch file and script file for diskpart, that will
partition set active and format your target device disk.
3. You need to extract target device image from compressed file located
inside your SDI or from network, flash, CD, etc. (Your choice).
4. Reboot from your local disk, and that is it, image deployed.


Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Michel,

I recommend using Remote Recover from Winternals (www.winternals.com).
Remote Recover allows you to mount a remote target's harddrive as a local
drive in your system. Once the drive is mounted, you can format, partition,
and copy the image to the target drive. You will have to call them directly
to get the price for Remote Recover without the other tools.

Regards,

Sean Liming
XP Embedded Manager
A7 Enginering (www.a7eng.com)
Author: Windows XP Embedded Advanced and Windows NT Embedded Step-by-Step