If you are deploying an operating system image directly from a DVD, you must specify the location of that image within the WIM file on the DVD. In the WIM file, this information is organized like this:
<WIM>
<IMAGE INDEX="2">
<NAME>MyWIM</NAME>
<DESCRIPTION>MyCustomWindowsImage</DESCRIPTION>
</IMAGE>
</WIM>
In the unattend.xml
file, the image information is specified in the <MetaData>
element in the Microsoft-Windows-Setup
component hierarchy under <settings pass=”WindowsPE”>
. For example:
<MetaData>
<Key>/IMAGE/INDEX</Key>
<Value>2</Value>
</MetaData>
The <Key>
element indicates which data item in the WIM file to match. It can be any of the following:
IMAGE/INDEX
IMAGE/NAME
IMAGE/DESCRIPTION
The <Value>
element indicates what the value of this data item should be. Here, the image to be deployed has an IMAGE/INDEX
value of 2
in the WIM file.
You can extract a list of the images in a WIM file by using the following command:
imagex /info
WIMFileName > c:\info.txt
Here, WIMFileName is the name of the WIM file (for example, install.wim
). Be sure to redirect the output of the command to a text file (as shown here) so that you can easily search through the results.
For more information, see the MetaData topic in the Unattend.chm
help file included in the Windows AIK.