The D-Spot (The Deployment Spot) » WinPE http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress Tickle your Deployment needs. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:43:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 VMWare network drivers for WinPE 3.0 http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/01/20/vmware-network-drivers-for-winpe-3-0/ http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/01/20/vmware-network-drivers-for-winpe-3-0/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:35:17 +0000 Ben De Vriese http://www.the-d-spot.org/wordpress/2010/01/20/vmware-network-drivers-for-winpe-3-0/ When capturing a reference image using VMWare Workstation/Server your WinPE image needs the right nic driver to contact the Deployment Share.

Here is how to obtain and inject these vmware drivers into your WinPE boot image.

First download the drivers from VMWare (link updated Sept 2010). (PCnet Family network adapter, NDIS5 Driver)

Import them (I used \WinXP_SignedDriver\netamd.inf, pcntpci5.cat and PCNTPCI5.sys) into your deployment share:

MDT 2010 WinPE drivers

Make sure drivers are injected into your WinPE images:

MDT 2010 - Inject drivers into WinPE

And rebuild the Deployment Share, to regenerate the WinPE boot images.

MDT 2010 Update Deployment Share

Last step: import the new WinPE boot images into your PXE boot server. (or rewrite your bootcd’s with the WinPE ISO file)

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