Creating And Customizing Images For Windows PE

Media-Based Local Deployment For Systems Running Microsoft Windows

This deployment method is easy to assemble, but is the least flexible. Any change to the system configuration, for example, requires the creation of a new bootable media. This method does not provide a writable media, making it necessary to use predefined and tested configuration files.

For the media-based deployment methods, the following tasks need to be completed:

•Creating And Customizing Images For Windows PE 3.0

•Creating and Customizing Images For Windows PE 4.0 and 5.0

•Integrating The DTK Directory Structure

•Creating A Bootable Media For WIN PE 3.0

•Running The Image

Creating And Customizing Images For Windows PE 3.0

If you are using Windows PE 3.0, download Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) from microsoft.com. By default, Windows AIK is copied to the C:\Program Files\Windows AIK directory. You must include the Dell-customized drivers and instrumentation drivers into your Windows PE media- based operating system.

Creating And Customizing Images For Windows PE 4.0 And 5.0

If you are using Windows PE 4.0 or 5.0, download Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) from microsoft.com. By default, Windows ADK is copied to the C:\Program Files\Windows Kits directory.

Integrating DTK Directory Structure

DTK provides WINPE3.0_driverinst.bat (for Windows PE 3.0), WINPE4.0_driverinst.bat (for Windows PE 4.0), and WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat (for Windows PE 5.0) scripts to pre-install the Dell drivers into a base Windows PE 3.0, Windows PE 4.0, and Windows PE 5.0 image . To execute the script (for example, WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat) on 64-bit systems:

NOTE: Make sure that you have administrator privileges before running the scripts.

1.At the command prompt, type the following command to change the directory to the location of the script, WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat : cd C:\Dell\x64\Drivers\winpe5.x

2.Execute the script: WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat <WIMPATH> <DTKPATH>

where <WIMPATH> is the destination path to create the directory structure for Windows PE and <DTKPATH> is the path for the Dell drivers in the extracted DTK toolkit. For example,

WINPE5.0_driverinst.bat C:\winpe_50 C:\DELL\x64\DRIVERS.

This pre-installs the Dell drivers into Windows PE image. The successful execution of the above commands creates a bootable ISO image for Windows PE 4.0 and 5.0 at <WIMPATH>. For creating a bootable media for Windows PE 3.0, see Creating A Bootable Media For WIN PE 3.0.

NOTE: The destination folder (C:\winpe_50) is created as part of the process, and must not be an existing directory. The destination path and the path to the Dell drivers must not contain any blank space.