Windows Embedded 2009

swain90

swain90

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Hi All,

Not sure if this is the right place to put my query however Windows Embedded is a bit more specialised.

I've downloaded the Windows POS 2009 trial version and I'm wanting to embedded my answer file into the ISO.

I've tried capturing the boot image from the original ISO and using imgburn to build it but it's not working.

Has anyone had any experience of building Windows Embedded images/ISOs?
 
I've tried capturing the boot image from the original ISO
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Do you mean boot.wim in in Sources?

For a regular Windows ISO you would place an answer file "autounattend.xml" in the root which Windows Setup will detect and use. Or copy the answer file to a USB and plug it in during setup. Does that not work for Windows Embedded?

The boot.wim is the WinPE, not sure why you would want to copy just that from the ISO. You would want install.wim if you wanted to deploy the OS.

Let me know what you're trying to do and I'll do my best to help.
 
@Mujja Thanks for your reply.

From the start...

I downloaded this ISO; https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=11196 and trialed it on a virtual box VM, that ISO works fine.

I've then used various tools to extract the boot loader from that ISO, checked the MD5 hashes each tool extracts the same boot file.

I extracted the ISO, added my answer file and placed in the root of the folder, I then used imgburn with these parameters and using the same boot file to rebuild the ISO;

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Once the iso has been built and I start the VM all I get is this;

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I've found some tools which will allow me to add my unattended file to the iso and save, the ISO then boots up fine, however the setup process won't launch;

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I have no idea why it's not working :-\
 
Downloaded the ISO and as expected it's completely different to a regular Windows ISO.

Have you read the documentation included in the ISO. In the "POSReady Setup and Command Line" it says all you need to do is

- Run setup.exe /guionly:%USB%\unattend.xml

You actions during setup are recorded in unattend.xml. Modify the xml file for additional settings and drivers, see "Answer File Reference".

- Copy the unattend.xml file to the Setup folder where it's automatically detected and used.

There is no mention of needing to extract the boot sector and create your own ISO. If you want to package up the extracted ISO to mount and test on a VM and have Windows ADK installed then use OSCDimg from the command line.
 
I don't have a spare USB at the moment, but I would have thought adding some files to an Installation ISO is pretty standard practice and should just work.
 
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