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discussion comment 31 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

Ok, thanks. I just ran test where I used xcopy after Ghost restore (in WinPE) to copy drivers to c:\temp folder. In next restart, all my driver jobs finished successfully as they executed setup.exe files from c:\temp. I'm using firm.exe too ...

discussion comment 31 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: Xcopy instead firm.exe to copy drivers?

Hmm...in our environment not a single PC has Windows installed on different partition than C. Any idea how firm.exe decides which partition is "production" partition?

New forum discussion 30 Jan 2011

weedee posted: Xcopy instead firm.exe to copy drivers?

I need a solution Hello, I've seen that many people prefer Altiris utility "firm.exe" to copy files (drivers etc.) to imaged harddisk. Why so many are using firm.exe and not eg. xcopy for example? I'm

discussion comment 30 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

Offtopic, but why people are using FIRM.EXE to copy drivers in WinPE automation to client? Could you use xcopy instead? Just wondering.

discussion comment 28 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: Error -99 during imaging process

Hi mclemson, Thanks for your reply. There's no hidden partitions on my 6930P's and there's no spaces in a image filename. Our Ghost image file is one file only and 9GB in size. I also upgraded BIOS version to latest, but no ...

New forum discussion 28 Jan 2011

weedee posted: Error -99 during imaging process

I need a solution Hello, When Distribute Image Task -task is applied to HP 6930p laptop (with default BIOS settings) Ghost starts restoration on WinPE automation and somewhere after 50%, Ghost closes suddenly without error m

discussion comment 26 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: Script install .inf files

Hi McLemson and Morten, McLemson: I'll try your suggestion OS is Windows XP SP3 x86 Image is already resealed with sysprep. Editing image with GhostExp is last possible option. I would like to use Run Script task instead.

New forum discussion 26 Jan 2011

weedee posted: Script install .inf files

I need a solution Hello, I'm using Run Script tasks to install model specific drivers. I have Lenovo T400 and manufacturer provides only .sys and .inf files from download page. There's no setup.exe what so ever.

discussion comment 26 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

Hello Morten and everybody, In PXE config I have mapped S: for \\DSSERVER01\eXpress and T: for \\PXESERVER\Images folder. Images share contains folder windrivers and it contains folders for each computer model. These folders are named exatcly ...

New forum discussion 20 Jan 2011

weedee posted: PXE Forced Mode Utility?

I need a solution Hello guys, We have environment with several subnets/VLANs. We're experiencing a lot of problems with clients receiving boot menu from PXE server. We're controlling services like DHCP, but rout

New forum discussion 19 Jan 2011

weedee posted: Ghost image corruption

I need a solution Hello, One of our Ghost image file (spanned in 3 parts) was accidentally deleted with shift+del. There's no backup tapes of the server. I've attempted to recover with Recuva and FileRestore uti

discussion comment 14 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

Hi Morten, My Images folder absolute file path is E:\Images. I created this folder by hand and I have shared it with name Images. My eXpress folder absolute file path is E:\Program Files\Altiris\eXpress\Deployment Solution I don't ...

discussion comment 14 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

Hi Morten, When I attempted to put N:\Images\Drivers as a source path and choose 'Copy files directly from file source' I got error: "When using the option to have the agent download files directly from the source, the source ...

discussion comment 14 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

I tried to enter source path to my Copy File To -task in WinPE automation: \\%ALTIRIS_PXE_SERVER%\Images\Drivers to c:\temp When client tried to execute this command, I got error to console: "network path was not found" I ran set ...

New forum discussion 14 Jan 2011

weedee posted: How make deployment process to download drivers from nearest PXE server

I need a solution Hello, We have 1x DS 6.9 SP4 server with WinPE 2.1 and 5 PXE servers. PXE Servers are scattered to different sites. At the moment, we're deploying only XP images. I have two issues need to dealt wit

discussion comment 13 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: Installing Altiris PXE Server to W2008R2 via AxInstall.exe

Thank you all. I got folllowing instructions from Symantec support and this is how I did it: On the remote machine, browse to the installation files for Deployment Server which is usually in C:\DSSETUP. 　 - Run AxInstall.exe - on the ...

discussion comment 12 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: WinXP minisetup asking for NIC drivers

Any ideas? Anyone? I noticed that I've not added UpdateInstalledDrivers=Yes entry to [Unattended] section of my sysprep.inf file. Is this value processed, if I add it to my custom sysprep.inf file, which is selected in Distribute Disk ...

discussion comment 10 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: Clients in remote office are unable to receive boot menu

Hi Thomas, I managed to resolve this on my own. First, I redirected all my existing jobs to NOT use WinPE automation. Next, I removed 'WinPE managed' boot menu option from PXE config. I also need to delete MenuOptionXXX folder and ...

New forum discussion 08 Jan 2011

weedee posted: How to join computer to domain with pre-selected name?

I need a solution Hello, If I create new computer named DESKTOP1 to Deployment Console, how I can make sure this computer is joined to domain with this name during image deployment process? We're using "sysprepp

discussion comment 07 Jan 2011

weedee commented on: WinXP minisetup asking for NIC drivers

1. I changed custom answer file in Distribute Image Task to \express\sysprep\standardxp.inf (this is one of the default files I think?) and deployed image again - no effect. NIC driver still not getting installed during minisetup. 2. Below ...

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