dansar Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Hi,I would like to make an installation of Windows XP from a network.Can you help me ?I have a friend which has a Portable without CD-Rom drive, but has a network connection, how can he install Windows XP from a share folder on an other PC ?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicked187 Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 This is a pretty simple setup... Just make a distribution point on the network, and run the i386/Winnt32.exe... instead of creating a Winnt.sif... I create an unattend.txt and specify the following in my batch script:set AnswerFile=.\unattend.txtset UdfFile=.\unattend.udbset ComputerName=%1set SetupFiles=.\I386start /wait I386\winnt32.exe /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend0:%AnswerFile% /udf:%ComputerName%,%UdfFile% /makelocalsource /dudisable /syspart:C:\ /tempdrive:C:\ /copysource:langEssentially save that and run <filename>.bat <COMPUTERNAME> and it run fine, you will need some tweaking... and you may not need the computer name, I use that because I deploy many PCs through this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dansar Posted October 23, 2003 Author Share Posted October 23, 2003 Wicked187 Thanks for your quick answer, But I don't understand exactly.If the portable has no system, just a formatted Hard drive (in FAT32), and he just have a network Boot DOS floopy disk, once the portable is connected, what is the command for the install ?Something like : \\PC_002\i3886\winnt /u:A:\winnt.sif ?I am not sure ?!?In this case, can you give me some examples ?Thanks again for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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