WDS Network drivers

[ellie666]

hi

 

I've just set up WDS on my SBS 2011 std and am trying to capture the images of some new bespoke pc's I've build, all using Gigabyte MOBO's. However when ever I try to capture the image I get a message about no matching network card drivers installed.

I can't put the drivers directly into WDS as they're not signed apparently and when I try and install them using DISM it seems to make no difference.

Does anyone have any suggestions please.

 

thanks

 

Elliott

[Oaktech]

what drivers are you looking for?

 

They do indeed have to be signed. Unless they are a really scabby net card signed drivers should be available.

[ellie666]

standard gigabyte network card drivers - for windows 7 x64 - I had downloaded the ini's but wds didn't seem to like them and suggested they were unsigned

[ellie666]

unless they were the wrong ones , but they were direct of gigabyte support site

[Oaktech]

Can you give me the hardware ID from device manager and I'll see if my Google Fu is stronger than yours!

[mowgli82]

Hi, you can add unsigned drivers, its just a bit of a pain to do.

 

Injecting x64 unsigned drivers to boot.wim

 

 

Download correct driver

 

 

PXE boot > Wait for Error about Network Driver > Shift F10 >mount drive with driver on (Diskpark) and Exit

 

Check you have the correct driver - boot the PC and wait for error

 

 

> Shift F10 >drvload "\enter path to driver"\nameofdriver.inf > initializeNetwork >IPConfig /all - check for IP

 

 

On the server – take a copy of your boot.wim

# Mount the boot.wim image.

dism /Mount-wim /WimFile:\boot.wim /index:2 /MountDir:

 

 

# Add a single driver

Dism /Image: /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\drivers\mydriver.INF

 

 

# Or recursive if you have a directory full of drivers

Dism /Image: < pathtomountedwimfile> /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\drivers /Recurse

 

 

# For unsigned drivers

Dism /Image: < pathtomountedwimfile > /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\drivers\mydriver.INF /ForceUnsigned

 

 

# Save the changes to boot.wim.

Dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir: /Commit

[Joanne]

I've started using the Windows 10 boot.wim because it has more drivers in it automatically. That sorted my WDS woes!

[mowgli82]

I've started using the Windows 10 boot.wim because it has more drivers in it automatically. That sorted my WDS woes!

or this

[ellie666]

that sorted it

 

I was missing the line with "forceunsigned" - now I just need to work out how to capture the image as it's only giving me the option to deploy?!!!!!!!

[mowgli82]

in the WDS console right click your boot image with the correct driver and click create capture image......if when you have done this the capture images fails to allow the machine to boot. mount the image using dism, don't make any changes then unmount and commit, re-import the image and you should be good to go.

 

oh an you will will need to sysprep the pc otherwise the drive won't show up in the capture menu.

[ellie666]

thanks I'm all sorted now, although I now have 2 capture images and 1 boot !!

[ellie666]

so my capture worked fine (I believe) but now I'm getting WDSClient: an error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP server --- I have tried injecting loads of different drivers from the original gigabyte mobo cd but it has made no difference

 

HELP

 

thx

 

Elliott

[ellie666]

btw if I shift f10 I can ping my servers and have an ip address

[Joanne]

Is this in the PXE boot bit?

 

Are the clients running a UEFI BIOS?

[ellie666]

they are running uefi

[ellie666]

and yes this is in the pxe bit

[Joanne]

THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM!!

 

Change it to legacy BIOS. Usually in the advanced bit, make sure PXE is enabled in legacy mode.

[sted]

THERE'S YOUR PROBLEM!!

 

Change it to legacy BIOS. Usually in the advanced bit, make sure PXE is enabled in legacy mode.

 

if you have a 2012r2 server and a windows 8.1/10 boot image you don't need to do that and are better off not as the cps boot faster I find in uefi mode

[ellie666]

but my images are build already in uefi mode

[Joanne]

if you have a 2012r2 server and a windows 8.1/10 boot image you don't need to do that and are better off not as the cps boot faster I find in uefi mode

 

OP said they were using SBS 2011...?

 

I've found UEFI never works for me. I'm using 2008 R2. I deploy Windows 7 images and with new laptops I have to revert to legacy BIOS to reimage the machine, then you can put the bios back to UEFI for Windows 8.1 / 10 builds. I believe UEFI won't work with Windows 7 though (not in the several schools I've set up WDS in anyways!).

[sted]

OP said they were using SBS 2011...?

 

I've found UEFI never works for me. I'm using 2008 R2. I deploy Windows 7 images and with new laptops I have to revert to legacy BIOS to reimage the machine, then you can put the bios back to UEFI for Windows 8.1 / 10 builds. I believe UEFI won't work with Windows 7 though (not in the several schools I've set up WDS in anyways!).

no im not 100% sure win7 supports uefi at least out of the box

[ellie666]

uefi windows 7 works absolutlely fine and I've captured images with it, BUT I can't rollout those images using wds apparently - so do I have to convert the windows 7 installation to bios (if even possible) or start again from scratch with a bios image

[Joanne]

OK does your image machine not boot with legacy BIOS enabled then?

 

Have you tried putting a machine into legacy BIOS to put the image on it, then changing the BIOS back to UEFI when it's imaged?

[ellie666]

that seems to have done it - I tried that just before I read your post

[Joanne]

Excellent! Good to hear. I've had nightmares with UEFI BIOSes, imaging and acer machines in the past. This was all in a reception classroom. It was a living nightmare! Hah!