Re: My first diskless station

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From: Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\) (sbrcin_at_ptt.yu)
Date: 07/04/04


Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 15:24:24 +0200

Hi Dmitry,

I have no idea what cables are used by this device. You will have to look at the connector to see how it look and then you will know
what to plug in it.

Best regards,
Slobodan

"Dmitry Gostev" <dgostev@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:BD7B2D54-BDE8-4569-96E9-D55C43FDB1DF@microsoft.com...
> Hi Slobodan,
>
> Thank you very much for the hint but i have got one issue now - if the purchased hardware that will run the XPE image does not
include HDD.
> for example Compak Thin clients (they are diskless but there is a thin CD-ROM drive - i dont know standard of the IDE connection)
> Should i find thin 2,5" HDD from laptop and run FBA on htis configuration first?
>
> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" wrote:
>
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > One hint about SDI boot.
> > You must run FBA on HDD, and when you are satisfied with the look of XPe run time, you will create SDI image from post FBA
> > (configured XPe) image.
> >
> > You must do that in this way for now, sorry :(
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Slobodan
> >
> > "Dmitry Gostev" <dgostev@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:A864B8FE-0C69-44EE-BC4D-BDD9C587AA5C@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I try to build Diskless station with XPe on it.
> > > I have created image in Target Disigner - 110Mb, created SDI 170 Mb where this image is allocated and created ramdisk.sdi to
> > download it through the network to the station.
> > > The PXE, TFTP work fine but when FBA starts it reboots station continuously after "Change System Hive".
> > > MSDN says that it can be caused by wrong SDI file showing. I have changed all i thaught but nothing helped.
> > >
> > > Here is my boot.ini
> > >
> > > [boot loader]
> > > timeout=0
> > > default=ramdisk(0)\windows
> > > [operating systems]
> > > ramdisk(0)\windows="Win XPe" /fastdetect /rdpath=net(0)/test4.sdi /rdimageoffset=4096
> > >
> > > I use Remote Boot Manager with ramisk.sdi congfigured in it.
> > >
> >
> >
> >



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