Active Directory/Documentation/WDS/Creating Bootable Discover CDs

This page documents the steps necessary to create a bootable WDS "discover" CD, which allows someone who cannot PXE boot the ability to use WDS by booting a the Windows PE image off of optical media.

1. Open a Windows PETools command prompt window (as administrator) and the WDS management console
2. In the WDS management console, select a boot image to create a discover CD from
3. Right-click that boot image and select "Create discover boot image"
4. Give the wizard a file name and deployment server to use
5. The wizard will export the boot image, which may take a few minutes
6. Using the PETools window, create a temporary Windows PE build environment by typing "copype <arch> c:\winpe" (<arch> is the architecture to use; generally x86)
7. Replace the boot.wim image in the newly-created WinPE environment with your exported discover image
8. Type "oscdimg -n -bc:\winpe\iso\boot\etfsboot.com c:\winpe\iso c:\winpe.iso" - this will result in an iso image
9. Burn the iso image to a CD (or DVD)
10. [optional] Delete the c:\winpe build environment
11. [optional] Delete the c:\winpe.iso CD image