Not running AClient in WinPE?
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 5 comments
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I have a WinPE PXE option and I do not wish to run the AClient when in it. I have the WinPE environment booting and running fine (got the NIC drivers working, yeah). When it starts it will run the AClient, not be able to get tot he server for whatever reason then reboot. I simply want it to boot to WINPE and then sit there waiting for me, not running the client.
How do I disable the client in the boot disk creator?
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You would have to make a WinPE network boot disk, not a PXE boot disk. Or make a boot disk without using Boot Disk Creator. BDC will always add AClient to the PXE boot disk.
So how do I get around the issue of it rebooting after the AClient updates the server then closes down?
With a PXE boot disk you won't get around that. Its made to boot, check with the server and execute any pending jobs. If there are no jobs it will reboot. Like I said you will need to make a network boot disk. Then you can burn that iso to a CD.
So I followed your advice and chose "Netwrok Boot Disk" at the creation screen. This created a "boot to PXE WinPE environment" that did not run the client, exactly what I wanted. Now when I select option 3 it will boot to WinPE and just sit there and wait for my hot little hands to enter commands.
Thanks for the help, the "Network boot disk and not Automation Boot disk" was exactly what I needed.
Great! Glad that worked.
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