Recommend me a solution to look into

[Tripredacus]

I am in the market to look at a software solution that will allow us to migrate away from using CD based installs for XP and into a network based option.

Currently we use a CD that uses Win PE 2005 to format the disk, load the NIC drivers and download the Configuration Set from our server. After getting the cfgset (default is XP Pro SP2 without additional software) it reads the info from the WINBOM file to connect to the correct distribution share(s) to start the Setup process.

I was tasked with the project of seeing how we can get this system to work with the WinPE 2.0, as if I can make it work there, I can modify our existing boot environment to support installs of XP. The problem we are facing is that while the unattend and setup.exe can be called from the WinPE 2.0, we cannot find a way for it to use the WINBOM file as well.

Our existing hardware platform is Server 2008 x64, with WDS and PXE-Boot enabled. We can install (Vista) and image (XP and Vista) with this environment but not install XP.

I have looked into other options such as BDD2007 but it does not work properly and I cannot find a resolution.

I may also be interested in information that allows us to use a PXE Boot Menu. Our system right now boots directly into the WinPE 2.0, but I would like to get a choice between that and say, loading an install from the server. As an example, I have my 2003 server to boot to WinPE or 6 different Vista images, but it never gives me a menu.

So any information regarding how to install XP via PXE using a WINBOM file would be helpful.

[uid0]

I've not tried this, but it might do what you want:

http://ping.windowsdream.com/winner.html

[Tripredacus]

That definately looks like a nice tool, but it isn't what I am looking for. I do not wish to reinvent our XP install.