Ximage and Windows PE Problems

[Guest]

Hi Everyone,
Hope someone might be able to help me out here. I'm pxe booting a Windows
PE image over the network and then using ximage to deploy a wim file back to
the machine. However, for some reason it just sits on 1% progress.
Sometimes it might eventually carry on (very slowly) other times it just
stops altogether with no error messages. The ximage files are from the WAIK
distribution.

The wim file is on a dfs share (root not domain). Don't think it's a
network issue as I'm using a cross over cable and have tried different
machines but with no luck.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be most grateful.
Thanks,
Giles

 

[Guest]

meant to say stand alone root not domain root.

Anyone any thoughts on the problem...?

Thanks,
Giles

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Try to xcopy the wim-file to the local drive first before applying the
image using ximage. That would probably rule out if you have any
network issues.

You can also try to update winpe with the lastest driver for the nic


regards

Johan Arwidmark
Microsoft MVP - Setup/Deployment

 

[Michael Niehaus [MS]]

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(Given the symptoms and not knowing what build of the tools are being used,
it's difficult to say what the cause is.)

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