Here it is:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490308.aspx
it stands for Microsoft Business Desktop Deployment
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Harm <[email protected]> wrote:
> BDD? Please explain more :)
>
> my current vista/2k8/7 setup is configured to autorun and install,
> meaning it will grab the unattended file from a http location and fire
> up the correct setup for 2k8/vista. There is only 1 hardcoded 'problem':
> the definition of the network share.
> Sadly, using wine for the windows part will not work because most linux
> servers lack X... And that is required...
>
> You could look into Windows Auto Install Kit, MS software ;)
>
> regards,
> - Harm
>
> On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:11 -0700, Travis Zadikem wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. Maybe I'll see what else there is. The newer BDD might be the way
> > to go. Thanks for the update.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Harm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > im working on some scripts to do unattended installations with
> > WinPE2
> > (and WinPE3-beta so it also supports Win7), only downside is
> > the need of
> > a windows machine to execute some of the steps...
> >
> > Current steps/progress:
> > * download windows waik dvd for Windows 2008 or the beta for
> > Windows 7
> > * extract some files (3*cab + 1*msi) from it
> > --from here its a .bat file--
> > * msiextract the msi file
> > * copy files from extracted folder to pxe boot structure
> > * create BCD file (the new boot.ini)
> > * mount the .wim file and replace a boot file allowing for
> > more cmds to
> > be executed.
> > --end--
> > * incorporate the new config in your PXE setup
> >
> > So far, it seems the BCD only needs to be build just 1 time
> > and can then
> > be used on different hardware configurations. Thus, the file
> > could be
> > used as 'pre-compiled' in the unattended project.
> > As you can see, all steps can easily be done from a Linux
> > env... Except
> > msiextract and mounting the .wim file, i'm going to try that
> > with wine
> > (perhaps bcdedit also works in wine)...
> >
> > Mind you, this only starts the WinPE shell and from there on
> > you can
> > mount a network share and start setup.exe with the unattended
> > switch to
> > use a unattended.xml file. By replacing a file in the .wim
> > file even
> > this can be (and already is) automated :)
> >
> > regards
> > - Harm
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 20:34 -0700, Travis Zadikem wrote:
> > >
> > > I am wondering if unattended and/or unattended-gui is ready
> > yet for
> > > prime time deployment. We will be needing in the next
> > couple of weeks
> > > to deploy 81 brand new laptops with Vista and I was thinking
> > about
> > > using unattended and even got the latest unattended-gui from
> > Mario
> > > (thanks) but it still doesn't look promising. Anyone?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > >
> >
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