Dear Fellow Altiris DS User,
I too had the same issue you are reporting and I was able to solve by using the following instructions:
Altiris Deployment Server v6.9SP1 has a bug that prevents you from being able to add WinPE Drivers successfully.
SOLUTION
2 – Download and EXTRACT (do not install) Windows Vista Drivers for nic needed. (WAIK 2.1 used on the Altiris v6.9SP1 installation requires Vista drivers. If using WAIK 1.6, use Windows XP Drivers)
3 – Open the PXE Configuration Utility on the Altiris Server and create a new Boot Option which should be named accordingly.
· Use WinPE as the Boot OS Option
· Choose x86 as the Processor Options (choosing only x86 will speed up your boot creator, since you’ll not be creating three different boot options for x86, x64 and ia64)
· Use Boot Disk Creator to edit your boot image
4 – When editing the Boot Disk, use the “Have Disk” option to look for the proper drivers extracted earlier. The file to be selected is the *.sys, placed under the extracted drivers folder.
5 – Proceed with boot creation with all default options and, when finished, select the recently created boot option as default.
PS: THIS PROCESS WILL NOT WORK IF MAINTENANCE PACK 1 IS NOT INSTALLED.
Have a great ALTIRIS IMAGING day!
Alex