Sorry, you are right, my test machine was the 10 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Niehaus Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Dell Venue 8 Pro with MDT
The Dell Venue 8 Pro is an x86-only system. -MTN From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Moore Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 7:41 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Dell Venue 8 Pro with MDT Not sure why you were able to only boot using x86 boot image. We are testing these in our environment and I have successfully setup an MDT image which uses Win 8.1 using an x64 boot image. I also use a USB to Ethernet dongle to start the image with a USB (UEFI boot image attached) to boot the machine to and then use the usb to Ethernet dongle to see my deployment shares. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Garner Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 3:46 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [MDT-OSD] Dell Venue 8 Pro with MDT I have a Dell Venue 8 Pro (I love it), and was curious to see what the procedures would be to reimage. Some notes: I had some problems booting to WinPE on the Dell Venue 8 Pro, turns out that it was only able to boot using a x86 MDT boot image. My working configuration included OTC Adapter<http://amzn.com/B00BFYH11Q>, USB Hub<http://amzn.com/B004J24Y5M>, USB Ethernet<http://amzn.com/B001NLV4TQ>, Microsoft Keyboard, and USB Flash Drive. Use the Keyboard to enter the Device Boot Menu (press F12 after turning on machine). As for the 4GB Fat32 Problem... You *can* use USB fixed disks, something like Windows To Go certified devices, however they are expensive. Instead I would recommend splitting WIM files. I have created procedures before, this solution is similar: http://www.osd-couture.com/2013/11/how-to-allow-mdt-2013-to-use-wim-file.html The quickest solution however, is to keep the *.wim files on the server and download over the network. Use a USB Ethernet device with WinPE support, and *extract* the contents of the MDT boot files ("C:\DeploymentShare\Boot\LiteTouchPE_x86.iso" ) to a USB device that has been marked *active* and formatted as Fat32. This is what I did above. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Klish Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 7:19 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [MDT-OSD] Dell Venue 8 Pro with MDT So I'm working through some of the challenges with imaging tablets that have no network port. I also have no dock with a network port. I decided to try building some media with MDT that has all the components I need. Problem is it's uEFI only which means I need a fat32 formatted USB stick. My image is over 4GB so it won't fit on the boot partition. I saw Michael Niehaus make a comment at the end of his uEFI blog post saying: "There are a few solutions to that, some of which you might not immediately think of, such as partitioning the media into FAT32 for boot files and NTFS for everything else." Everything I've read along these lines suggests you need to have a USB stick that shows up as a fixed disk or this won't work. Back when he wrote that comment I don't think USB sticks like that even existed. Can anyone confirm that is a requirement? Another option seems to be using split WIM files. From what I've read they are not supported by Windows 8 setup though. MDT doesn't use setup any more, but I'm guessing it's still a limitation without tweaking the DISM logic. Even with the increase in tablets I'm not seeing a lot of information on the net that addresses these challenges. 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