Windows PE 2.0 And VMware Workstation
Thursday, 21 December 2006 by Michel Roth
Aaron Parker has written an interesting artilce about Windows PE 2.0 and VMware Workstation: "I'm working on a Presentation Server deployment project at the moment, and am deploying the servers with Windows PE 2.0 via Windows Deployment Services (WDS). I need to launch Windows Setup via WINNT32.EXE because the servers have two RAID sets and the client wants the user profiles on the second disk set. So before deploying the unattended setup to hardware, I'm testing the deployment in VMware Workstation. Unfortunately Windows PE 2.0 does not recognise the VMware network card out of the box, so I've had to create a custom WinPE image with the drivers in it. This is the first time I've done this with Windows PE 2.0 so there was a little trial and error. Here are the steps I completed to create my custom image:.."

Read the entire article here.

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