Most of the latest machines use Intel I series NICs ,for which Vista drivers are not available.Since Ghost Solution Suite has WINPE 2 ,which is a lighter version of Vista ,these models cannot be imaged over the network.The need is to use a different version of WINPE for network imaging.
Below are the steps to use WINPE 3.0 and Console. Start to finish.
The steps to create WIM file and to use with the Ghost console:
Download and install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) for Windows 7 from the following URL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753
1. Open Deployment Tools Command Prompt.
Start > All Programs>Microsoft Windows AIK>Deployment Tools Command Prompt
2. Mount a Windows PE image.
- copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86
- imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe_x86\mount
3. Create a folder by the name Ghost under c:\winpe_x86\mount
4. Copy the following files from Ghost install folder to c:\winpe_x86\mount\Ghost.
gdisk32.exe,GhConfig32.exe,ghDplyAw32.exe,ghost32.exe,ghreboot.bat,GhWalk32.exe,ngctw32.exe,thread.dll,
VPartition.dll,pubkey.crt
5. Rename the attached text files to startnet.cmd,start.bat and unattent.xml respectively
6. Copy the start.bat and unattent.xml to c:\winpe_x86\mount\Ghost
7. Copy the startnet.cmd to c:\winpe_x86\mount\windows\system32
8. Make sure that the changes have taken place in the startnet.cmd
9. Close all mount folder references
10. To add drivers ,run the following command after preparing the Win 7 drivers in the C:\Drivers folder
- Dism /Image:c:\winpe_x86\mount /Add-Driver /Driver:c:\drivers /Recurse
11. Commit the changes after closing all mount folder referernces,
- imagex /unmount c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit
12. Create a copy of WINPE-512 under Boot Wizard and name it to Winpe3 Note: Do not edit this template with Boot Wizard later.
13. Replace the attached manifest.txt file under
XP & 2003=>Doc&Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\
Vista &later=> Program Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\
14. Delete the boot.wim under,
XP & 2003=>Doc&Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\sources Vista &later=> Program Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\sources
16. Copy the c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim to following location and rename it to boot.wim,
XP & 2003=>Doc&Settings\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\sources Vista &later=> Program Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\Common\Winpe3\sources