deploy_issues

Hi, I'm in an area now that I'm not very experienced in, and I think I just need some clarification to get me on my way. Sorry if some of my terminology is incorrect; I haven't dealt with this material much yet. I'll start off with my question, and then give some details. I'm wondering if you can deploy a sysprep'd image over a network, as in have the target computers boot off the network, grab the image, have them go through the installation unattended with a sysprep.inf file, and boot into the operating system. From what I've read, it looks like RIS is the only deployment method that has that capability. What I've done so far: I have been looking at various methods for deploying images of an operating system to target computers. Fairly quickly I found out about unattend, sysprep, and RIS. I am running WindowsXP Professional, and I would like to deploy this operating system as well. I have started with sysprep, made an image on a DVD, and am about to test it on a test computer. I have worked through the sysprep.inf stuff, and know how to get the installation to proceed without user interaction. I am not working with a Windows server machine right now, but I could probably obtain that OS if it is required. It looks like a Windows server OS is the only one with RIS functionality (is this true?). I started with sysprep because it looked simple to start with, and if I can keep it that way, wouldn't that be wonderful... Thank you in advance.