HireBootCD add progrmas

[Dietrich07]

Good afternoon, please tell me how to add a folder with HirenBootCD programs to the download. Now it is loading, but the programs that come with the image are missing.
My config

kernel ${http-path}/wimboot gui
initrd --name bootmgr.exe http://${fog-ip}/hiren/bootmgr.exe bootmgr.exe
initrd --name bootx64.efi http://${fog-ip}/hiren/efi/boot/bootx64.efi bootx64.efi
initrd --name boot.sdi http://${fog-ip}/hiren/boot/boot.sdi boot.sdi
initrd --name bootmgr http://${fog-ip}/hiren/BOOTMGR bootmgr
initrd --name BCD http://${fog-ip}/hiren/boot/bcd BCD
initrd --name boot.wim http://${fog-ip}/hiren/sources/boot.wim boot.wim
boot || goto MENU

[george1421]

@dietrich07 My intent is not to be negative at the start here, but you are using FOG not as it was intended by the developers. So you may get limited support here. You are doing something with the HirenBootCD that was not intended by its developers.

HirenBootCD was never planned to be pxe booted, so there may be limited support from those developers too. Its possible to pxe boot HirenBootCD because its windows based and we use the wimboot program to link everything together. I suspect the HirenBootCD developers intended and programmed their program to look on the CD drive for the additional files you speak of. In the case of PXE boot there is no CD to reference because the network was used for booting.

The boot.wim file contains the virtual hard drive the HirenBootCD uses to run windows. If you add your needed programs to that WIM file then they will be available in the pxe booted OS.

Here is a Microsoft KB article that talks about making changes to the WinPE environment and editing the boot.wim file: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-mount-and-customize?view=windows-11

[Dietrich07]

@george1421 Thank you very much for your answer, I use FOG for its intended purpose, there are no problems with deploying the prepared image on a PC. It’s just that sometimes you need a LiveCD to diagnose hardware, which is why I asked for advice.

[george1421]

@dietrich07 Please don’t misunderstand what I say. What you ask is not the main focus of the FOG Project, but I also give you an idea how to get these missing CD based programs into the live environment. You need to just add them to the boot.wim file. Then when the liveos boots your programs will be there too.