Win Xp Install From Network

[dansar]

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.

[Wicked187]

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.txt

set UdfFile=.\unattend.udb

set ComputerName=%1

set SetupFiles=.\I386

start /wait I386\winnt32.exe /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend0:%AnswerFile% /udf:%ComputerName%,%UdfFile% /makelocalsource /dudisable /syspart:C:\ /tempdrive:C:\ /copysource:lang

Essentially 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.

[dansar]

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