How do I deploy my Image to the Target Device?

[Guest]

Newbie question here.

I have system running XP Pro that I have XPe Embedded Studio installed on.
The image I am developing is for another system.

How do I get that image running on my target system?
I have read the Create bootable CD, Install to a Hard Disk, Compact Flash
device, etc.

What is the easiest way to do this?
WinCE has PB that allows a download of a boot image via a network
connection, and you are able to debugg the image that way.

Can something like this be done with XPe Embedded Studio?
I just need some info to point me in the right direction.

 

[Brad Combs]

Hello,

Can you give us some more information about your target device? Suggestions
will vary slightly based on what type of access you have to the system. For
example if you are trying to build an image for a system with a hard drive
and you can take that hard drive out of the device that will make life
easier. You can simply put the hard drive in your development system, create
a partition, format, mark it as active, and copy the files from Target
Desingers build folder to it. Then shut down the development PC and move the
disk back to your target. Boot up the target to run FBA.

Another option is to boot to Windows PE, map a drive to a network share that
has the Target Designer files in it and use xcopy to copy the files to the
local disk in the device. This assumes you have a CD-Rom or a USB CD-Rom
attached to the device. Disk 1 of the XP Embedded tools is a bootable CD
containing WinPE. Try that out just for fun.

If you continue to work with XPe you'll eventually gather an aresenal of USB
adapters to get different types of disks attached to your development system
so that you don't have to open the development system up all the time. Take
a look at these:

http://froogle.google.com/froogle_c...G=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en

This is the item that I use the most for physically moving the drive around
(it has both 40 pin 3.5" drive connection and a 44 pin 2.5" drive adapter).
I use WinPE in situations where I can't get at the drive or don't need to
because there is a CD-Rom present.

Again, let us know more about your device and we can give you quite a few
ideas.

P.S. Coming from the Platform Builder world be aware that the "debug" image
in XPe is useless so always build a release version.

HTH,
Brad

 

[Guest]

My target device is a Kontron EPIC CE using a Celron CPU running at 733MHz
with 512MB RAM.
A hard disk drive connected to the EIDE Primary Master.
Has a Compact Flash Type 1 as EIDE Secondary Master,6 USB Ports.
http://www.kontron.com/products/pdproductdetail.cfm?keyProduct=40772&kps=2941&kpc=75

What I did was to use Partition Magic to resize my HD, already has a XP Pro
install
Then I used Disk Manager to create and format a new Primary Partition and
shared it.

Next I copied all the files from the XPe image folder on my development
platform to the Partition created above.
I then edited the boot.ini file to multi-boot the target devcie.

To make a long story short, I boot to the XPe image, FBA runs, I believe
successfully.

My problem is, that when I logon to XPe, it dumps me to the command shell
at: c:\windows\system32.

Why is this?
Do I need to do something else?
I searched through the MSDN and it wasn't much help.

 

[Brad Combs]

Hello,

Sounds like you have a good start.

As for the command prompt, when Target Designer asked you to choose a shell
did you by chance choose the Command Shell? If your looking for the standard
explorer shell choose "Explorer Shell" instead.

HTH,
Brad