Windows PE - Getting Network Access

[Sam_Brown]

Hi guys,

 

We normally use RIS and GHOST (8.2) to image our laptops here but with newer laptops we find that more and more of them are having issues because DOS drivers aren't always available.

 

I've decided to test using Windows PE so we can use GHOST32.

 

I've set up the PE image and it boots fine from CD but GHOST can't connect to our GHOST CAST server because the PE image can't find the network or get an IP address. It just has the default 127.0.0.0.

 

Ultimately once I've got this sorted I want to deploy the PE image via RIS so there is no need for boot CDs but I want to make sure the image is working correctly before I move to that stage.

 

Does anyone know how to get the network card drivers added to the PE image and how to configure the image so it will get an IP address when it starts up.

 

Hope you can help and thanks in advance.

[strawberry]

easyest way i can think of is to use mdt.

[Sam_Brown]

easyest way i can think of is to use mdt.

 

Nah don't really want to go making any wholesale changes to our current setup.

 

All the tutorials state you just copy the drivers in but it's not working at the moment. Unless I'm using the wrong drivers...

[tarquel]

What drivers are you missing in your RIS booting woes?

 

I can possibly help you out.

 

I've added support for our Dell Latitude E6410 that have just come in for example

 

Nath.

[Sam_Brown]

Toshiba Satelite Pro S500

 

 

If you're talking about the current method of using RIS to deploy a dos ghost image then the issue isn't with the driver this time but the fact that the Keyboard \ Mouse don't work within Ghost even though the KB works with DOS. Took the problem to Symantic who stated that it's not uncommon for newer laptops to not work within Ghost using the DOS Boot Disk and that we should be moving to Win PE instead and using Ghost32. I don't really want to discuss the old system though as I've spent ages searching for a solution, and nothing works.

 

 

So I've created the PE image. Ghost works fine, keyboard and mouse works fine however it's not getting an IP from the server and instead the IP in ghost comes up as 127.0.0.0 instead of one it's supposed to get from DHCP.

[Sam_Brown]

This is the guide I'm using... if it helps.

 

How to build a Windows PE [Vista] CD/DVD that contains Ghost32.exe and then join a client machine to a Ghost Cast Server session to create or restore an image file.

 

Note that I obviously don't need to do the steps for Mass Storage Drivers location...

[Arthur]

Here's a batch file I have used in the past to successfully create a Windows PE 3.0 CD with NIC drivers. The drivers you use must be compatible with Windows 7 for this to work though.

 

@echo off
TITLE Windows PE 3.0
:: =============================================================================
:: Requires WAIK for Windows 7 - http://goo.gl/byri
:: =============================================================================
:: SETLOCAL causes environment changes to be restricted to this batch file.
:: SETLOCAL

:: Set processor architecture (x86, amd64, or ia64) 
SET ARCH=x86

:: Configure Paths & Variables (Drive letter must be lowercase due to bug in WAIK?)
SET PETOOLS=c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools
SET WORKINGDIR=d:\WindowsPE\WinPE-%ARCH%
SET REMOVEBOOT=true

:: Set path to required AIK files - these are the default locations
SET COPYPE="c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\CopyPE.cmd"
SET IMAGEX="c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\%ARCH%\ImageX.exe"
SET OSCDIMG="c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\%ARCH%\OSCDImg.exe"

SET DRIVERS=D:\WindowsPE\Drivers
SET INSTALLVM=true
SET INSTALLGFX=false
SET INSTALLLAN=true
SET INSTALLMSD=false


:: =============================================================================
:: PREP/CLEANUP
:: =============================================================================
TASKKILL /F /IM WinServ.exe /T
:: The DISM cleanup command simply cleans up any previous wims/mounts you have been working with.
DISM /Cleanup-Wim

:: Delete working directory if it exists
IF NOT EXIST "%WORKINGDIR%" Goto START
Echo "%WORKINGDIR%" exists, Removing working directory. Please wait...
RD /S /Q "%WORKINGDIR%"


:START
:: =============================================================================
:: START
:: =============================================================================
PUSHD %cd%

:: Copy Windows PE files to working directory
Call %COPYPE% %ARCH% "%WORKINGDIR%"

:: Copy base WIM to boot.wim
Copy "%WORKINGDIR%\winpe.wim" "%WORKINGDIR%\ISO\sources\boot.wim"

:: Mount boot.wim
DISM /Mount-Wim /WimFile:"%WORKINGDIR%\ISO\sources\boot.wim" /index:1 /MountDir:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount"


:: =============================================================================
:: LANGUAGE/REGIONAL SETTINGS
:: =============================================================================
:: Set keyboard layout and locale
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Set-InputLocale:0809:00000809
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Set-UserLocale:en-GB

:: Set time zone - the name of the time zone must exactly match the name of the time zone settings in the registry in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\TimeZones\
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /set-timezone:"GMT Standard Time"

:: Verify the language settings
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Get-Intl
:: PAUSE


:: =============================================================================
:: ADD ADDITIONAL PACKAGES
:: =============================================================================
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\winpe-scripting.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-scripting_en-us.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wmi.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-wmi_en-us.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\winpe-hta.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-hta_en-us.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\winpe-mdac.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-mdac_en-us.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\winpe-wds-tools.cab"
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Package /PackagePath:"%PETOOLS%\%ARCH%\WinPE_FPs\en-us\winpe-wds-tools_en-us.cab"


:: Verify packages were installed correctly
DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /get-packages
:: PAUSE

:: =============================================================================
:: INSTALL DRIVERS
:: =============================================================================
if "%installvm%"=="true" DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Driver /driver:%DRIVERS%\VMware /recurse
if "%installgfx%"=="true" DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Driver /driver:%DRIVERS%\GFX /recurse
if "%installlan%"=="true" DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Driver /driver:%DRIVERS%\LAN /recurse
if "%installmsd%"=="true" DISM /image:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Add-Driver /driver:%DRIVERS%\MSD /recurse


:: =============================================================================
:: ADDITIONAL FILES
:: =============================================================================
:: Copy files required for GImageX to work (imagex.exe/wimgapi.dll/wimmount.inf/wimmount.sys/WimMountInstall.exe/Wimserv.exe)
XCopy "%ProgramFiles%\Windows AIK\Tools\%ARCH%\imagex.exe" "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\Windows\System32\" /E /C /H /Q /R /Y
XCopy "%ProgramFiles%\Windows AIK\Tools\%ARCH%\wim*.*" "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\Windows\System32\" /E /C /H /Q /R /Y

:: Copy additional tools to System32 folder (use "%WORKINGDIR%\ISO" for root of CD/DVD/UFD)
XCopy D:\WindowsPE\Tools\Common "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\Windows\System32\" /E /C /H /Q /R /Y
XCopy D:\WindowsPE\Tools\%ARCH% "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\Windows\System32\" /E /C /H /Q /R /Y

:: Delete BootFix.bin
IF "%REMOVEBOOT%"=="true" del /q "%WORKINGDIR%\ISO\boot\bootfix.bin


:: =============================================================================
:: REGISTRY
:: =============================================================================
REG LOAD HKLM\_WinPE_SYSTEM "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\windows\system32\config\system"
REG LOAD HKLM\_WinPE_SOFTWARE "%WORKINGDIR%\mount\windows\system32\config\software"

:: Add registry keys for "TCP/IP Registry Compatibility" service (for PENetCfg).
REG IMPORT D:\WindowsPE\Registry\PENetCfg.reg
:: Increase size of WinPE RAM disk (X:\) to 48MB (default is 32MB)
REG ADD "HKLM\_WinPE_SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\FBWF" /v "WinPECacheThreshold" /t REG_DWORD /d "48" /f

REG UNLOAD HKLM\_WinPE_SYSTEM
REG UNLOAD HKLM\_WinPE_SOFTWARE


:: =============================================================================
:: COMMIT CHANGES
:: =============================================================================
:: Unmount WIM
DISM /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:"%WORKINGDIR%\mount" /Commit

:: Create the ISO
%OSCDIMG% -n -b"%WORKINGDIR%\etfsboot.com" "%WORKINGDIR%\ISO" -lWinPE "%WORKINGDIR%\WinPE_x86.iso"

:: Move ISO to parent folder
Move "%CD%\WinPE-%ARCH%\WinPE_x86.iso" "%CD%"

ECHO. 
ECHO  Created WinPE_x86.iso
ECHO  Burn to CD/DVD using a third-party application (e.g. ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP)
ECHO. 

POPD

[Arthur]

This is the guide I'm using... if it helps

You might want to consider upgrading to Windows PE 3.0 since that guide is for v2.0. You will find the latest version is much better when it comes to integrating drivers.

 

 

how to configure the image so it will get an IP address when it starts up.

As long as it can connect to the network it will pick up an IP address via DHCP.

 

 

By the way, if you need to increase the screen resolution when you are using Windows PE with Ghost32 these are the two files you need to edit and create.

 

StartNet.cmd

wpeinit /unattend=%SystemRoot%\System32\Unattend.xml

 

 

Unattend.xml

 
       publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" 
   xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" 
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
         
         32
         1024
         768
         
   true
   false
   
 

[Arthur]

Nah don't really want to go making any wholesale changes to our current setup

You don't necessarily have to use MDT for deploying images. I think what Strawberry meant was use it just as an easy way to create a basic Windows PE CD with the drivers integrated. Once that has been done you could uninstall it.

[vien]

Tarqel: PM sent.

[powdarrmonkey]

Tarqel: PM sent.

 

Why? If you have some insight, please share it so everybody benefits.

[vien]

Why? If you have some insight, please share it so everybody benefits.

 

Because my question was regarding RIS and E6410's specifically which didn't have anything to do with this thread. I didn't want to hijack the thread and I needed 1 post count to send a PM.

[powdarrmonkey]

Soooo.... start a new thread?

 

Mods, split please.