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XP installation with WAIK (WIM based install) & PE2.0 (new RIS)

RIS is dead, long live WAIK & WIM. It seems that you can replace ris with WAIK and deploy windows xp sp2 systems with this new system. It doesn't use the dos text mode part of windows installation that we know and er.. love? There are some notable differences:

"Because .wim files are highly compressed, you can transfer them across networks with a minimal bandwidth hit. And because they are file-based, you can hot-edit them. That is, you can take an existing .wim file and add or remove functionality (such as a hotfix or service pack) without needing to create a new image from scratch."

Although i have found refrence to the fact that although you can hot mount these images under xpsp2 , you can't access them - to do that you need vista although KB926044 may solve that issue.:

"Note you should be very careful about loading registry hives of Vista installations - if you don't have a kernel patch ( KB926044 ) you can corrupt the registry"

This may be useful:

If you are getting NTLDR errors after WIM deployment, it's usually because the disk had previously been used with NT4/W2K/XP. Vista uses a different bootloader, so you need to update the boot sector.
Grab a copy of bootsect.exe from Vista and use the command:
bootsect /nt60 c: (assuming that c: is the boot drive).
If you need to revert to the XP bootloader, bootsect /nt52 c:
I usually do the bootsect command before I do the ImageX /apply.

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How to add a third-party OEM network adapter to a RIS installation

How to add a third-party OEM network adapter to a RIS installation

This is for adding network drivers to a ris image.

I found tht it didn't work untill i added the windows2000 nic drivers to the i386 directory. then it worked like a charm.

Add/slipstream SATA drivers – A fully working solution – MSFN Forums

Add/slipstream SATA drivers - A fully working solution - MSFN Forums

This is for adding SATA drivers to a ris image.

Sysprep – for quick deployment of a few windows machines.

So you want to sysprep a machine? (sysprep removes all customisation data, riprep does that and also removes all hardware as well.)

1. download the right version of the deployment tools from microsoft
2. make a folder %systemroot%\sysprep on machine to be imageds put in it sysprep.exe, setupcl.exe and sysprep.inf. (see appendix)
3. run sysprep, select the activation and run minisetup checkboxes(or sysprep.inf is ignored) then click reseal.
4. deploy images.