[ipxe-devel] adding *dynamicly* files in wimboot possible?

[James A. Peltier]

----- Original Message -----
| Hi list,
| 
| Im using wimboot in conjunction with ipxe, which runs pretty fine
| here.
| At the moment Im adding network driver etc. into the boot.wim-file
| via
| linux imagex-tool by "mountrw" option and  "unmount --commit" after
| adding as described in the tutorial.
| 
| Thats imho not the best way, because i have to create a new
| boot.wim-file every time the need of files changes, so there are more
| and more boot.wim-files on my disk.
| 
| Is the a possibility to add file in the wimboot-process dynamicly? Im
| not so deep in the code, but i think in a way like the overlays in
| partedmagic-pxe way. So i.e. i could load at boottime an addittional
| file name drivers.wim via initrd. But how do i get access to these
| files
| from winpe? Is this possible? Which format must have the additional
| file
| in this case?
| 
| Any hints would be great!
| 
| TFH!
| Oliver

Once the driver has been added to the wimboot file you never have to add the driver again.  Why is it that you're trying to do this each time the system is booting?  Now, granted there are limits to the number of drivers that you can inject into the wim file, but that's a much easier problem to script.

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