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Good Evening.

I just downloaded the latest Boot Disk Creator for use with WinPE 4.0 / 5.0 to create a new 64bit Boot Disk for imaging our workstations.

After creating the new disk, I booted into Ghost in an attempt to run a GhostCast session, however it appeared that I was not getting an IP Address, not even 127.0.0.1.  I incorrectly assumed that the newest Intel LAN Drivers were not installed, and spent a good hour getting them injected into the WIM File.

Having booted again into the Environment, I still was not getting a local IP Address in the GhostCast Window, so I did an ipconfig within the Command window, lo and behold, I had a valid IP there, but for some reason it was not showing up in Ghost64.

What I am wondering, is if this is a bug with the 64bit version of Ghost client, or is there a switch that I'm missing?  It would be rather handy to have the IP Address listed and not have to run IPConfig every time.

Thanks!

I doubt this is related to the Ghost client as it does not manage the NIC - it is entirely the responsibility of WinPE to handle the NIC.  I am wondering if this might be a timing issue, in that your DHCP server is not responding in time or there is some other negotiation issue preventing the NIC getting a valid IP address.

You could consider adding IPCONFIG /release, then IPCONFIG /renew into the CMD file that WinPE launches with a delay in between, so that the NIC has time to finish initialising.

Out of curiosity, is there a reason for going the 64 bit route?  Imaging is just a process of reading and writing disk blocks and this happens pretty much identically for 32 bit and 64 bit - unless of course you are doing something inherently outside the capabilities of 32 bit WinPE.

Heya,

So I went ahead and created a 32bit version of the Ghost Book Disk using WinPE 4.0.

I manually injected my Dell Intel LAN Drivers into both 32bit and 64bit WinPE.wim files before running the wizard to create the disk.

Same issue, boot into Ghost32, under GhostCast - Unicast option, still no IP Address listed.  Checking IPCONFIG and there is a valid IP.

I can specify our Image Server address and multicast no problem, however, as I mentioned above, there is no address listed in the GhostCast window.

Thanks.

I believe its a known thing (I am not sure if I can call it a bug in case if its intentional) as the older version lists the IP address correctly.

So sorry but which is the latest Boot Disk Creator at now?

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