programmerbob

I'm a noob when it comes to pxe booting, and not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have a multicast windows deployment services image setup and listening. When I try to pxe boot, it just gets stuck doing dhcp, and then never finds the server. Does the server and target computer need to be on the same subnet to find each other? I don't have control over AD(I'm an OU administrator in a large college), so hopefully I don't need to set things there. I've never used pxe to deploy my images before though, so I might be missing something.

When the automatic windows updates run where to the files that are downloaded get stored temporarily? I have a number of computers that we will be visiting for a migration and need to have people install the windows patches. We don't currently have wsus, etc to help in this regard. I was thinking that if they are stored in a place that is readable that I could dump the files I already had downloaded from the msft site into a folder and have it install. Failing this is there a script that will allow me to just run the patches sequentially without integrating into an os?