To make a portable WIM imager with no kace support
1: create a bootable kace usb drive with the K2000 boot environment. (use a usb device large enough to also hold the wim's)
2: take the boot.wim file from the .\files\sources directory and put that in a directory that also has the file imagex on your computer
3: create a temp dir below that dir.
so put boot.wim and imagex in a dir c:\modifier create c:\modifier\temp
4: open a command window and go to the folder, enter this command "imagex /mountrw boot.wim 1 c:\modifier\temp"
5: go to .\temp\windows\system32 copy imagex here.
6: edit startnet.cmd and delete everything in it and replace with "cmd".(no quotes)
If you want to automate any of the process's just place them in the startnet.cmd also.
If you want to be able to do diskparts and mbr resets add the needed files to system32
some of things I added to system 32 were batch files to diskpart, format and mbr reset
I created a dpart.bat - diskpart /s wipe_partition.conf
I created a wipe_partition.conf
select disk 0
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
assign
exit
If you go to \\ikbox\peinst login as admin or .\admin (use share pw) and look in preinstall, applications, scripts, etc you can harvest the format and mbr commands.
Once you have all the extra's you need, the next thing is to repackage the wim file.
7: imagex /commit c:\modifier\temp
8: imagex /unmount c:\modifier\temp
replace the boot.wim on the USB drive, create any imaging dir and batch files you want on the drive. Put your wim(s) on this drive. (found on 2000 at \\ikbox\petemp\imagestore)
Boot target machine, it will winpe boot for you and open a command window, run your uploaded batches from either the system dir or root of usb drive.
Use imagex commands to deploy the image.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749447(v=ws.10).aspx
1. Create your USB KBE
2. Download and install the image that has your wim deployment. This is a small image with limited files, but also contains your pre, mid-level and post install tasks.
3. On the root of the USB key, create a folder named ImageStore.
4. Copy the .wim from \\ikobx\petemp\ImageStore to usb\ImageStore
The newest version of knit (which you can tell you have if you have 2 partition wim templates) contains an updated apply_wim.vbs file that looks to see if you are running from usb, and if so, it will look for the directory mentioned.
Corey
Lead L3 Enterprise Solutions Engineer, K2000
If my response was helpful, please rate it! - cserrins 12 years ago
I have created my USB KBE (downloaded the zip and run the install.exe that prepared my usb media) . In step 2. where do I download this wim deployment? \\k2000\petemp\ImageStore there is no such share. - JFX 11 years ago
http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/creating-a-windows-7-sysprep-image-without-having-to-install-any-drivers-at-post-install-tasks - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago