PXE boot install

[neuro42]

Hey all, been a while but I am back

I have been searching the web for the last 2 weeks trying to figure out how to net install XP with OUT using RIS.

I setup a machine with server 2003 yesterday thinking, oh well I will just use that, however the setting up of DNS/DHCP etc with a router in the loop was a little beyond me.

I have a dell c400 latitude that has no floppy and no optical drive but has the option to PXE boot.

I know how to setup PXE server (with tftpd32) and even managed to install ubuntu using this method. However, I am at a loss when trying to implement windows using the same method. Everything I google points to Microsft and RIS install. I have tried unattended.sourceforge.net, but they have to make it more complicated then it is apparently.

I tried botting to an ISO and the laptop just sat there for 2 hours with a blinking cursor so I assummed that was not correct.

If this has been covered in the forums already if someone could link me please, I am ignorant enough on the subject I suppose to not be searching the right keywords perhaps?

Also if there is any difference between net installing Windows Fundamentals and XP I would appreciate it

Thanks in Advnace.

[bj-kaiser]

search MSFN for booting Windows PE 2.0 over PXE. Build a WinPE image, set up TFTPd and create a share with the XP I386 files. After that boot WinPE over PXE, hope that your NIC driver is already included, map the share (net use ...) and run Windows Setup.

So far the theory.