Re: Automated Deployment Services & WinPE
- From: "Alexander Ortha [MS]" <alexor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:25:44 +0200
Hello Ben,
First, some problems of SP2 and ADS are out there, so you shouldn't install SP2 at a ADS box.
For ADS only WinPE 1.6 based on Windows Server 2003 SP1 is support and you need a special agreement to get the WinPE Build tools for version 1.6 or earlier. WinPE 2.0 from Vista is free and you can download throught the WAIK and BDD but you cannot use this with ADS.
I recommend to you to install as the ADS Server a Windows Server 2003 SP1, then install ADS and put your necessary driver into the Deployment Agent. After that you can capture and deploy image by using the Deployment Agent.
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"Ben" <benb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:%23chw0c3dHHA.1868@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I'm trying to setup Automated Deployment Services, and I'm having real problems with the deployment agent & WinPE installation.
So far I've setup 2 boxes, one is the Master Device Controller, running Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 & ADS. The other is the Master Image Device, which is also running Windows 2003 EE SP2, along with the deployment agent. I can connect to the image master from the controller, and run scripts remotely, and reboot.
However the problem comes when setting the default boot options to either reboot into the deployment agent (DA), or WinPE. Whenever I reboot into the DA, I get a RAMDISK IMAGE error (Windows could not start due to an error while booting from a RAMDISK. Windows failed to build a bootable RAMDISK IMAGE.).
Having googled, and looked on eventid.net I've found 2 MS pages with support, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841550 & http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899495 . The first I don't think is relevant, as I'm not receiving eventid 771, however the 2nd seems to be spot on. I have tried the fix, which suggests using the original Windows 2003 media, and not one with SP1, however this has not fixed the problem. I still get the RAMDISK IMAGE error.
Secondly I can't seem to add a WinPE repository, I have created a WinPE 2.0 CD, on a Vista PC, using the details described in the 2 articles below:
Walkthrough: Create a Bootable Windows PE RAM Disk on CD-ROM
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/7a47a896-ca59-4586-b688-3a3c098d34241033.mspx
PC Deployment with WinPE
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/03/20/pc-deployment-with-winpe.html
Initially the CD failed because neither article says that you have to have a winbom.ini file in the WinPE root, otherwise the ADS install throws up and error, however after creating a winbom.ini file, then recreating the WinPE CD, I tried again, this time using the command line tool "ADSRepository.exe /ADD WinPEx86 d:" However this time the process fails with "Invalid WinPE image: Could not find i386 or AMD64 folder".
Does anyone have any documentation or blogs they could point me to, on how to create the WinPE boot image for ADS, and how to get the deployment agent working, so you can boot into it!
Cheers
Ben
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