BartPE

[Markbnj]

So I made myself a BartPE boot dvd today. Had a couple of things I wanted to ask about. First, it probably takes 5 minutes to boot. Not that I would be complaining if it saved my tail, but is that normal?

Second, after booting to the BartPE desktop it asks if I want to enable the network. I click Ok and then it tries to load the network adapters and fails. If I go into the Go menu and hit Network -> Enable network, or whatever its called, a command window pops up and the tcpip stack and windows client appear to load, but I still can't see any of the other systems. If I then try to mount a network drive it says the network isn't enabled and asks if I want to enable it.

Any thoughts? Rig in sig.

 

[Rilex]

You probably need to add your network drivers to the BartPE installer and rebuild the CD image.

 

[tyanni]

Few things -

1. 3-5 minutes is about normal, on our p4 2.8s at work...

2. The only way I could get my nic to work was by (1) creating a custom plugin to copy my network drivers to the proper location on the disk, aka system32, system, etc. (2) using PeNetCFG instead of the bartpe network config

Tim

 

[Markbnj]

Ok, guys. Thanks for the tips. I'll look into setting up a custom config to include the network drivers. That's sort of the number one thing I wanted to get out of BartPE, network connectivity so I could easily rebuild my kids' machines.