Network Install of Vista 5384

[mmarable]

Okay, is this possible?

From what I've been reading here in the forum, I want to try and install Vista from a network share.

I'll create a share on one system and copy install.wim to it.

Boot my target machine using WinPE.

DiskPart to create the partition.

Use XIMAGE to apply install.wim to my new partition.

Will that work, or should I just copy the DVD contents to the share and run Setup from there?

Thanks

[fizban2]

this would work with a WIM that you have created, but not the one off the Vista DVD, the WIM there is not fully enclosed and MS doesn't use imageX (new name) to deploy it. if you were to install vista, activate it and then create a WIM from the resulting install it would work