How do you mount a WIM image in XImage for Longhorn?

[winlego3210]

I have XImage and I want to mount a WIM image. I've used the append command as there is no mount command like imagex, but it will not mount. How do I mount it?

[Lukas Marsik]

You don't. Apply it somewhere, for example create a VMDK in VMWare and mount it

[yourepicfailure]

I believe PantherXP has some utilities to mount a 4074 .wim to a drive. Download it from here: http://thuun.boot-land.net/PantherXP/
Extract it and navigate to PantherXP\panther_template\[ROOT]\sources and place the install.wim into that folder, overwriting the one currently present. Run 2_winmain_mount.cmd located in PantherXP\panther_template\[ROOT]\support\service\svcres. It should tell you what drive the wim was mounted to. Be sure to run 7_unmount.cmd when you're finished.
*Note, this only works with 4074 (possibly 4051 & 4053) install.wims and will not commit any changes you make to it. I didn't make PantherXp.

[Lukas Marsik]

Ummm... PantherXP does commit changes, what the heck would be the point of those CMD files then...
Also, this will only work with 4053 and 4074

It basically creates a virtual Z drive and applies it to there.

[winlego3210]

When I try to mount the WIM using the .cmd file, I get this:

However, the drive mounted, but it was empty. How do I get around this?

[rhobariii]

Umm? Are you Administrator?

[hounsell]

He was not in an Administrative prompt, as evidenced by the lack of "Administrator: " in the command prompt title.

It's error messages were written to be ignored.

Right click "Command prompt", "Run as Administrator", try again.

[winlego3210]

He was not in an Administrative prompt, as evidenced by the lack of "Administrator: " in the command prompt title.

It's error messages were written to be ignored.

Right click "Command prompt", "Run as Administrator", try again.

I ran it as Adminstrator, but it exited without any output or progress bar. The drive mounted, but it was empty. Why?

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The .cmd file runs fine on my XP VM though.

[Lukas Marsik]

He was not in an Administrative prompt, as evidenced by the lack of "Administrator: " in the command prompt title.

It's error messages were written to be ignored.

Right click "Command prompt", "Run as Administrator", try again.

I ran it as Adminstrator, but it exited without any output or progress bar. The drive mounted, but it was empty. Why?

Offtopic Comment

The .cmd file runs fine on my XP VM though.

99% of BATs/CMDs which rely on directory paths do this if you have UAC on...
Just run CMD as admin, navigate to the pantherxp script directory and launch it from there

[winlego3210]

He was not in an Administrative prompt, as evidenced by the lack of "Administrator: " in the command prompt title.

It's error messages were written to be ignored.

Right click "Command prompt", "Run as Administrator", try again.

I ran it as Adminstrator, but it exited without any output or progress bar. The drive mounted, but it was empty. Why?

Offtopic Comment

The .cmd file runs fine on my XP VM though.

99% of BATs/CMDs which rely on directory paths do this if you have UAC on...
Just run CMD as admin, navigate to the pantherxp script directory and launch it from there

I tried it, still the same result. Maybe I should temporarily turn off UAC...