Boot Disk Creation
I am using DS 6.9 with WinPE 2.1 installed via the WAIK kit. Everything appears to be as it should be, but I cannot create a standalone DVD. It will create a boot disk that I can use to pull the image from the network, however, I cannot get it to create a standalone DVD whatsoever. I have gone through every standalone tutorial in these forums an ungodly amount of times, and have tried every technique possible. The consensus in these tutorials is to add the .img files to the boot disk creator configuration and then build a boot disk .iso file with those embedded in it. For example,
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/node/4834
I follow all of those instructions, and then I begin to build the boot disk ISO file. The process begins and gets to a certain point and then gives me the error "Could not mount WIM file". I cannot find any posts about this at all anywhere on this site or even when I google the error. It seems like it's always something that won't work when I need it to...Murphy's Law I suppose. Anyways, ANY help at all would be appreciated on this one.
not saying this will fix
not saying this will fix your problem but try unchecking the compress wim file when configuring the winpe build
I pretty much followed the
I pretty much followed the following Altiris kb arcticle 26296, with some minor tweaks:
first I converted my .img file to windows .exe via image explorer (File--Make Self Extracting)
be sure to choose Windows.
next, Open the Boot Disk Creator and create a new configuration for WinPE. At Step 1 of 6 of the 'Boot Disk Type' wizard, choose Close this dialog and return to the editor”.
Add your image file to the configuration by right-clicking on %SystemRoot% and choosing Add file (the .exe AND any .001 or .002 files)
*Edit %SystemRoot%\system32\startnet.cmd. select all the text, delete, and replace with:
@echo off
%SYSTEMROOT%\IMAGENAME.exe -nooem
exit
save
Right-click on your configuration and choose Create network boot disk.
Choose to create a bootable ISO image.
Burn the ISO to DVD.
I hope this helps
Fixed...Kind Of
I figured out the issue I was having before. I didn't have enough free space on my hard disk to compile the image itself. During the image creation process, my HDD was running out of space completely and the creation could go no further. After compiling the image on a HDD with enough space, the .iso is created successfully. However, I'm now having a separate issue after the WinPE pre-boot environment loads up. After it loads up and I try to execute the rdeployt command to install the image, I get an error that says "rdeployt is not recognized as an internal or external command". This doesn't make much sense, as rdeployt is part of the deployment solution itself. This is fairly frustrating as well, any help on this problem?
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