64 bit Third party imaging

Question

We are needing to deploy Windows 7 64 bit and to do this we will need to use
a 64 bit WinPE image.
We have setup Third party imaging and uploaded a 64 bit WinPE image and 64
bit imagex.exe. However when zenworktodo.exe is launched it errors because
it is a 32 bit application. (WOW64 does not exist in PE). This seems a
little odd. So my question: Does ZCM have a 64 bit zenworktodo.exe?
We are using ZCM 10.2.2 on OES2.
Bryon
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Answer 1

Let me know how you get on.
>>> Bryon Nichols<[email protected]> 26 March 2010 23:39 >>>
According to the Microsoft documentation to install a 64 bit os you have to
use a 64 bit WinPE:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...93(WS.10).aspx under
Limitations.
I have not tested it was just following what I found. I guess it would be
possible to apply a 64 bit wim from a 32 bit PE. I will be testing that
shortly. As our current thought for a workaround is to create a hard drive
image with ZCM that has Winpe 64 booting. Once WinPE is loaded into memory
it will wipe the disk and install the OS across the network. This however
looks like it loses the ZCM image safe data, though we are still working on
that.
Bryon
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.
>>> Heath Upton<[email protected]> 3/25/2010 7:37 PM >>>
Hi Bryon,
We're pushing Novell for both x86/x64 native WinPE support with x64 versions
of ZENworkToDo. This is something they need to do.
In the meantime, provided you're only imaging using imagex to capture/apply
a Windows 7 x64 image, you should be able to do this with WinPE x86 which is
compatible with ZENworkToDo.
Is there a specific reason why you need to boot WinPE x64?
Regards,
Heath.
>>> Bryon Nichols<bryon@gbd‑nospam‑architects.com> 25 March 2010 21:50
>>>
We are needing to deploy Windows 7 64 bit and to do this we will need to
use
a 64 bit WinPE image.
We have setup Third party imaging and uploaded a 64 bit WinPE image and 64
bit imagex.exe. However when zenworktodo.exe is launched it errors because
it is a 32 bit application. (WOW64 does not exist in PE). This seems a
little odd. So my question: Does ZCM have a 64 bit zenworktodo.exe?
We are using ZCM 10.2.2 on OES2.
Bryon
Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.