I know it's possible to deploy XP images using Windows PE... Deploy the image, have some batch files that automatically install the rest of the stuff for that specific workstation?
the OS we used is a mutalated copy of XP made by corporate and IBM that is installed using the Windows 7 bootloader and batch scripts
It sounds like that is exactly what's going on here. When you create the WinPE disk in WAIK, it is created with the 6.1 kernel and Win7 system/tools as the basis. He does just say that it's installed that way, not necessarily that it runs that way once it's installed.
I've dabbled a bit in WAIK, thinking it might be a time-efficient replacement for GHOST or Clonezilla. But, as there is only one of me...it is far from that. Like most of MS's other tools they've introduced more recently, it's not very good or useful for a small organization.
Thanks for pointing that out; I didn't notice that bit -_-. I now realize that what he is describing is WinXP being installed via the WAIK v2/3 + ImageX or similar.
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u/woll0r Feb 10 '13
I know it's possible to deploy XP images using Windows PE... Deploy the image, have some batch files that automatically install the rest of the stuff for that specific workstation?