WinPE vs Winnt32.exe - out of memory error

[Guest]

Hi there..

I am a newbie to WinPE but it seems as an intressting tech to try out when deploying. I am trying to run winnt32.exe from within WinPE 1.2, but i get an error: out of memory as soon as i run the installation. Any1 had this error earlier?

 

[Rob]

You don't install windows from within WinPE. WinPE is used at a tool to
create an unattended install. You write scripts and modify .TXT and .INF
files which control PE's behavior. WinPE itself does the installation when
set up properly.
Read the documentation that came with the XP OPK that you obtained WinPE
from.... there is A LOT of documentation, so put aside some time .

Hi there...

I am a newbie to WinPE but it seems as an intressting tech to try out when

deploying. I am trying to run winnt32.exe from within WinPE 1.2, but i get
an error: out of memory as soon as i run the installation. Any1 had this
error earlier?

 

[Guest]

Oki, thx dude.... will do! However, on other forums they discuss the possibility to launch a .sif unattended installation from within WinPE.. i am much more familiar with this tech so u r telling me there is no way to combine these two techs then?
As I see it, WinPE seems much more flexible when it comes to disk operations....

Thx again..

 

[Rob]

From within PE you can modify the WINNT.SIF for use when PE installs XP, but
generally there is no need. What is it youre trying to do? Perhaps I can
point you in the right direction. With PE, you really don't ever need to
modify the contents of the \i386 folder, almost all changes are done within
the configuration sets that are created with the OPK setup manager.

Oki, thx dude.... will do! However, on other forums they discuss the

possibility to launch a .sif unattended installation from within WinPE.. i
am much more familiar with this tech so u r telling me there is no way to
combine these two techs then?

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

You can absolutely run winnt32 from within Windows PE to start a
install of a operating system. That is a great way to install
operating systems

In order to do operating system installations from within Windows PE i
recommend the following procedure:

- map a network drive to a server share containing the i386 folder and
necessary driver updates
- prep the harddrives using diskpart
- xcopy down the i386 folder and drivers to newly created partition
(c
- launch winnt32 from c:\i386 (don't forget the /syspart:c switch)

Here is a example on a diskpart and install script

hdprep.txt:

select disk 0
clean
create partition primary size = 8192
assign letter=c
exit


Install.cmd

diskpart /s hdprep.txt
echo y| format c: /fs:ntfs /q /v:system
net use F: \\server\share /user:domain\username password
xcopy f:\i386 c:\i386 /h /i /c /k /e /y
xcopy f:\drv\hp530d c:\drv /h /i /c /k /e /y
c:\i386\winnt32.exe /s:c:\i386 /unattend:c:\i386\unattend.txt
/tempdrive:c: /syspart:c

You can of course also combine this with vbscripts that automatically
detects hardware and downloads correct driver set.


regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net