Archives for January 2007

Windows 386 Promotion Video

Here’s a promotional video for Windows 386 (basically, Windows 2.0 optimized for the 386 architecture). Each “VM” has a blazing 64KB of memory! -Soli Deo Gloria

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Further Success with Vista Deployment

For some magical reason, I re-tried the settings at blogs.msdn.com/winre for installing Windows RE onto the C: drive and I got it working! A second partition is not necessary. Just copy boot.sdi and SetAutoFailover.cmd (found in the WAIK) and winre.wim to the root of C:\. Then do a RunAs administrator on a command prompt and [...]

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Windows Vista Installation Methods – Part Deux

Mark Minasi is back, this time going over how to install Windows Vista using an unattend file. I really like the conversational, “in-the-trenches” style he uses to explain things, so I highly suggest you check it out! – Soli Deo Gloria

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Windows Vista Installation and Deployment Overview Released!

Good news! My guide on installing and deploying Vista using the BDD 2007 has been released! There is too much content to fit into one blog entry, so I’m justing linking this posting to the article. You’ll notice the format of this web page is very different from the rest of my site. This is [...]

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Mark Minasi writes on Windows PE

Mark Minasi’s monthly newsletter covers Windows PE this month.  He shows how to create a PE disc through the command line for us techies, but there’s actually an easier way through the BDD 2007 to make a Windows PE CD.  I’ve successfully deployed Windows Vista Enterprise via the BDD 2007 and now I am trying my [...]

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Repackaging Program Installations

I recently made a MSI file for taking the Novell client off of my company’s workstations. Repackaging program installations is challenging and fun. It can also be down right dangerous. I discovered repackaging a long time ago. There use to be a program called PictureTaker made by Lanovation that was sold to the consumer market [...]

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