Bootcamp + WDS Image

[RLR]

Currently looking to re-image our MAC suite with a new OSX image and a Windows image we already have on our WDS server. I've tried numerous suggestions on applying this windows image to a MAC but not having any luck. I don't want to have to re-create the whole Windows 7 image on an iMac but I feel I might have to do this if I can't get the Windows 7 image to apply to the iMac. Once it's on the iMac I can use Winclone to get an image to upload to our Casper server and deploy it that way.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

[Carter]

I wrote an article here that goes over how to take a WDS image and get it on a Mac as a BootCamp image Create a Bootcamp Image From a Pre Built Windows Image

 

If you have newer Macs you may run into an issue with the BootCamp/Windows partition not blessing. To fix this I've had to use WinClone. I've been trying to figure out an easier method. If you have an older Mac it will just work. You can image the Windows partition and it will show up as a bootable option. Apple Windows Bootcamp Won't Bless

[zlmitchell]

We currently use WDS on dual boots with this method.

First use deploystudio to partition a Mac with the last partition to be around 1GB in size (this makes it easier to expand in later). Here is an example script i use

 

diskutilpartitionDisk /dev/disk0 3 GPTFormat JHFS+ “Macintosh HD” 125G MS-DOS WINDOWS124.8G MS-DOS PXE 0.1G

 

Next take the iso file that WDS makes and either put it on a flash drive or burn it to a DVD. Boot into the WDS environment and do this

 

diskpart

select disk #

select partition # (whichever is the 1GB partition you made)

active

format fs=ntfs label="MDT" quick

assign

exit

 

Next 'cd' to the flash drive or cdrom drive and copy all contents to the partition

 

D:

xcopy *.* :\/e/v/w/h/-y/j

 

Next reboot back into deploystudio and make a master of the partition. DO NOT boot into the partition to test it, it often causes it to work only once.

Then restore the volume on your normal windows partition and boot to it.

 

We also use oscdimg.exe and a etfsboot.com to the iso to make it more reliable on all Mac models.

[RLR]

I wrote an article here that goes over how to take a WDS image and get it on a Mac as a BootCamp image Create a Bootcamp Image From a Pre Built Windows Image

 

If you have newer Macs you may run into an issue with the BootCamp/Windows partition not blessing. To fix this I've had to use WinClone. I've been trying to figure out an easier method. If you have an older Mac it will just work. You can image the Windows partition and it will show up as a bootable option. Apple Windows Bootcamp Won't Bless

 

 

Thanks for this. I was off last week so only just got round to trying it.

 

I've followed the guide and it seems to work. The only issue I have is that the windows image applied to the iMac is sysprepped so when it boots into windows it brings up the "Preparing your computer for first use" and shows a box to select a language but none of the bootcamp drivers are installed so the mouse/keyboard drivers are installed.