Point I was trying to make was ImageX is merely an "imaging" application with the feature that it can mount a wim such that you can modify it later. BDD, SIM, WDS and all that jazz can drop in files that extend the functionality of a wim image.
All I was saying was ImageX doesn't "do the driver" part :) Stop arguing with me, or I'll wait outside for you, heh <vbg>. jlc -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 I admit that my experience using WDS (Windows Deployment Services) with XP is limited. However, it is a constant that you can use an XML file for both instead of sysprep.inf and that winpe can inject drivers along the way. I've always used vista as my host, not winpe, so I'm not familiar with "peimg". I always use imagex. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 CMIIW, Doesn't imagex just create/mount images, and peimg /inf is what "injected" drivers. In the case of XP, you still use sysprep, but can mount the image and adjust the sysprep.inf? So you ImageX doesn't relaly have anything to do with the drivers, its peimg in vista, and still sysprep in XP? Right? jlc -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Imagex can inject drivers into an XP image. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:14 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Sorry, missed the post before. ImageX would work fine for "imaging" but it cant inject drivers into XP. Sysprep will *very* much help you. It's designed to do just this, it will allow additional Mass Storage Drivers to be included in the image, then it will remove what's not present after. nLite is cool, but its more than a GUI front end, it's a bit of a hack. KB303786 which leads to KB302577 HTH, jlc -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Imagex. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -----Original Message----- From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 Due to the big difference in machine hardware, sysprepping won´t help me very much. I need a customized install, with the selections for keyboard, timezones, group names, accounts, etc, a bunch of SATA drivers, other drivers for the most common hardware pieces we use. Would like to add Adobe Reader, Java, media player updates to that also. What would be the MS-approved name for the technology to do that, so that I can google for it ? I considered nLite to be just a graphical frontend for the .inf file modifications necessary to integrate drivers and pre-define configurations.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Brutsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Dell OEM XP Pro cd w/ SP3 > That's one of the reasons I dropped nLite for sysprep'ed ghost images. > > Joseph L. 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