WinPE

Used to install Windows >= 7 with OPSI.

Gernal Information about WinPE at ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment

Preparing WinPE from Linux

The (excellent) OPSI documentation describes at length, how to prepare a full OS Windows installation (see ​https://download.uib.de/opsi4.1/documentation/html/en/opsi-getting-started-v4.1/opsi-getting-started-v4.1.html#opsi-getting-started-firststeps-osinstall-fill-base-packages-nt6).

This can be archived quicker, especially, the preparing WinPE can be done directly on the Linux OPSI server, instead of using Windows and the need to install WAIK (or ADK):

Have your Windows installation ISO available. We assume, it is named /tmp/Win10_x64.iso.

#
# Variables. Adapt them to your needs.
#
WINDOWS_ISO=/tmp/Win10_x64.iso
PROD=win10-x64

#
# install required software
#
apt install wimtools syslinux p7zip-full
# CentOS/SUSE: yum install wimtools syslinux p7zip p7zip-plugins

#
# Install required OPSI product
#
opsi-package-updater install ${PROD}
cd /var/lib/opsi/depot/${PROD}

#
# Copy ISO content to installfiles
#
7z x ${WINDOWS_ISO} installfiles

#
# Create winpe
#
mkdir -p winpe-overlay/Windows/System32
printf "%s\r\n" "c:\opsi\startnet.cmd" > winpe-overlay/Windows/System32/startnet.cmd
mkwinpeimg --windows-dir=installfiles --overlay=winpe-overlay winpe.img
7z x winpe.img -owinpe/

#
# Adapt produkts
#
opsi-admin -d method updateWIMConfig ${PROD}

Using 7z x ${SRC} -o${DEST} is a shortcut to avoid mounting the ISO or disk image files. If you prefer, you can use this:

TMP=$(mktemp -d)
sudo mount ${SRC} ${TMP}
cp -a ${TMP}/. ${DEST]/.
sudo umount ${TMP}

Outdated approaches

WinPE 4.0

Modify WinPE for OPSI

Install Windows ADK, see "Windows Deployment with the Windows ADK" at ​http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824947.aspx

Perform the following commands:

c:

rem Set Environment variables

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Deployment Tools
DandIsetenv


rem Create Initial winpe directory

cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment
copype amd64 c:\winpe


rem Mount and modify WinPE boot image

cd c:\winpe
dism /Get-WIMInfo /WimFile:C:\winpe\media\sources\boot.wim

dism /cleanup-wim

dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:C:\winpe\media\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\winpe\mount

type C:\winpe\mount\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd
echo c:\opsi\startnet.cmd > C:\winpe\mount\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd

dism /unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\winpe\mount /Commit

Copy media subdirectory as winpe Directory to OPSI server:

cp media/. /var/lib/opsi/depot/win*\winpe/.

WinPE 3.x

Since Windows 7.

see ​http://download.uib.de/opsi4.0/doc/html/opsi-getting-started/opsi-getting-started.html#opsi-getting-started-firststeps-osinstall-fill-base-packages-nt6

Alternatively use following commands:

Install Windows WAIK

c:

rem Create Initial winpe directory
c:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\copype.cmd amd64 c:\winpe64

copy c:\winpe64\winpe.wim c:\winpe64\ISO\sources\boot.wim

# set variables
set wim=c:\winpe64\ISO\sources\boot.wim
set md=c:\winpe64\mount

rem Mount and modify WinPE boot image

cd c:\winpe64
dism /Get-WIMInfo /WimFile:%wim%

dism /cleanup-wim

dism /Mount-Wim /WimFile:%wim% /index:1 /MountDir:%md%

type C:\winpe64\mount\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd
echo c:\opsi\startnet.cmd > %md%\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd

dism /unmount-Wim /MountDir:%md% /Commit

More customazations are explained at wiki:opsi/dism

Copy ISO subdirectory as winpe Directory to OPSI server:

cp ISO/. /var/lib/opsi/depot/win*\winpe/.

Hint: The boot.wim file is also accessable by the 7z archiving programm (at least for WinPE versions <4.0)

Other

• wiki:opsi/dism
• some other hints concerning OPSI WinPE Images
  • ​http://gruppenkasper.net/tag/opsi/
• Building a Windows PE Image with Optional Components
  • ​http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824926.aspx