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DS 7.5 - Adding NIC Drivers to boot.wim (WinPE 4.0 Pre-Boot Configuration) 

Nov 21, 2014 09:24 AM

We already explained how to mount and un-mount boot.wim:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ds-7x-mounting-bootwim-file-access-folder-structure-enable-checkaddremove-files-and-folders

In this post, we will go through the process of manually injecting x86 drivers for the network card Intel i217 i218 into boot.wim

1 - First, we need to prepare the Driver's Folder by cleaning up all the unecessary drivers/files

See how to pick the correct driver for a specific NIC:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ds-75-how-pick-correct-driver-specific-nic

To learn how to do the clean-up, please have a look at this article:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ds-75-how-clean-downloaded-drivers-folder-drivers-injection-console-o-manual-bootwim-injection

 

The final product will look something like this:

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2 - The above folder is now stored as C:\NDIS63\

To access the command prompt with admin rights and have the boot.wim mounted at folder c:\mount\

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3 - To inject the Drivers we run the following command:

DISM /Image:C:\Mount /Add-Driver /Driver:C:\NDIS63 /recurse

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4 - The driver e1d6332 has been succesfully injected in the mounted pre-boot environment

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5 - It is now possible to un-mount the folder

The pre-boot configuration "boot.wim" is ready for WinPe 4.0 booting on machines with Intel i217 and i218 network cards

For info on how to un-mount the folder, see article below:

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/ds-7x-mounting-bootwim-file-access-folder-structure-enable-checkaddremove-files-and-folders

 

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Oct 21, 2015 06:55 AM

How about some proper documentation on exactly how to add drivers to the WinPE image. Instead of some half baked guide that sends you off in all directions scratching around for information!

Nov 25, 2014 07:58 AM

You might want to add that, finally you need to copy your custom "winpe.wim" image to the "template" folder of DS 7.5 and recreate the PXE Image with the DS 7.5 GUI to add the Altiris stuff.
And that you better start with a clean (original) winpe.wim if you want to inject drivers manually.

[yourdrive]:\Altiris\Deployment\BDC\WAIK\Tools\PETools\amd64
[yourdrive]:\Altiris\Notification Server\NSCap\bin\Deployment\BDC\WAIK\Tools\PETools\amd64

or

[yourdrive]:\Altiris\Deployment\BDC\WAIK\Tools\PETools\x86
[yourdrive]:\Altiris\Notification Server\NSCap\bin\Deployment\BDC\WAIK\Tools\PETools\x86

(not sure which ones you need in DS 7.5)
in DS 6.9 it was
[yourdrive]:\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\WAIK\Tools\PETools\amd64
[yourdrive]:\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Server\WAIK\Tools\PETools\x86

And with DS 7.5 using Site Servers, you have to make sure that your customized "template" winpe.wim will be replicated to all SBS Servers so that they create their images using the new template.

 

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