Hi all – I looking for some help, I want to create a WinPE DVD, with the option to just boot – or install WinXP SP2 –someone with tip tricks and info on how to do this ?

Cheers

Andreas

Forget WinPE, use BartPE...
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

You would just create the BartPE DVD as you would for a Bart CD...
Just burn the resulting ISO to a DVD media.

Now for the option to install WinXP SP2.
You must "park" the sp2 files somewhere on your DVD media, you can add it to BartPE ISO by using the "add files/folder from custom directory" option in pebuilder

Now you must "edit" the nu2menu (plugin\nu2menu\nu2menu.xml)
Add an option to the "programs" submenu that will "launch" the installation of your sp2.

Now you can boot BartPE and when you use the media as "autorun" on some PC you can install sp2

To make it all perfect you could "glue" all this into a pebuilder plugin... But will also work without...

Regards,
Bart.

Windows PE only supports booting from a DVD ISO (not DVD UDF). Create the bootable iso images using oscdimg.exe (in the winpe folder)

Use the -m switch to overide the creation of ISO images larger than 700 MB

Hi,

Please let me know if anyone was successful in creating a Win PE bootable DVD. I have tried multiple times with the same source files and the same oscdimg command with -m switch but the CD comes out bootable and DVD gives the following error:

Please insert the disk labeled

Windows XP Professional CD-ROM

            into Drive A:

* Press ENTER when ready.


ENTER=Continue   F3=EXIT

This error comes just as the DOS progress bar comes on the bottom saying "Starting Windows Preinstallation Environment....".

Please let me know if anyone has seen this error and how to correct it.

Any specific settings on the CD\DVD burning software and what software did you use if you were able to successfully create the DVD.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,
WINPE-Builder.

you get that message because there are files missing in your initial image of XP...possibly when you slipstreamed your SP into it...copy the missing files into the same dir as the i386 dir

You are missing files "win51ip.*"

Regards,
Bart.