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PXE boot from USB NIC

- by JoelHess

Is there a USB solution to PXE boot? I want to use ghost or clonezilla or something to image a bunch of units that don't have on board ethernet, and no clear real way to add to it.

How to image an fresh hard drive

I'm looking for something that can drop an image of Windows onto an uninitialized Hard Drive. I have new units that haven't even had the partition table created on them, and I'm trying to come up with a one (or two) step process for getting a disk image onto them. I've tried clonezilla, but that doesn't seem to like the lack of partition table, and as far as I can tell, Acronis doesn't work either.

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How do I test SendInput in c#

- by JoelHess

How can I tell if my call to SendInput is working properly? I have a small snippet below, and the message never seems to get hit. SendInput() returns 1, and there's no errors, so I assume that the message is going out properly. I've also tried the Form KeyPress and KeyDown Events, and I never seem to get those either. private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { INPUT input = new INPUT(); input.mkhi.ki.wVk = (byte)System.Windows.Forms.Keys.B; uint result = SendInput(1, ref input, Marshal.SizeOf(new INPUT())); } protected override void WndProc(ref Message m) { if (m.Msg == WM_KEYDOWN) { Console.WriteLine("GotIt"); } base.WndProc(ref m); }

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Chained MSI Installers Tool

- by JoelHess

I'm looking for a tool (preferably not InstallShield, and also preferably cheap/Free) that supports Chained MSI Installations. I've got several small installations that need to be able to be deployed separately, but also as one group, and I'd like to not have to maintain multiple installers. It looks like I need Windows Installer 4.5 to do this properly, but I can't seem to find to much info when I'm looking around for what version of Installer is supported.

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