Re: PXE boot and transfer image from an XP Pro PC

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Hello Pascal,

When you were able to get your RIS running, what type of file did you boot from? We are using a TFTP server but don't know what file we need to boot from.

Thanks,
Jason


Pascal Bouchard wrote:
To make a short story; i had almost the same concern you have 18 months ago; i first tried to work with RBS that didn't make it for me; i didn't have Windows PE at first so i created myself a Bart PE boot disk; with this boot disk, i was able to boot, setup a network drive, install sdimgr.wsf script, sdiaut.dll COM object and registries intending to deploy manually onto a local hard drive.

When i received my WinPE CD, i've been able to, with a lot of difficulties) to setup RIS with this; i was able to boot remotely; (at the condition that the network driver was supported by PE); to add drivers to PE boot image, it was also difficult and i am still unsure how i did; if you decide to go with this, i can give you a hand.

I am still booting with this image.

To deploy to 50 machines, however, my advise is to buy a gang programmer; you will, for sure, loose less time than deploying by network.

"Jason Krause" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eOWrfqHaGHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm reading this article called "How to boot the Microsoft Windows Preinstall Environment from an RIS server by using PXE-enabled clients"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304992&sd=tech

I get to step 6, "Locate the folder on the hard disk that contains the Windows PE build tools, denoted as build_version. Run the Oscdimg command by using the following options:"

The problem is, I don't have the Windows PE build tools. I am using Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE): http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

Should I continue to pursue this? I am able to use a CDROM drive and boot up with a BartPE image on the CD and transfer the files, so I'm guessing that this RIS server is the way to go?

Thanks,
Jason


Adora Belle Dearheart wrote:
Jason Krause wrote:
Hello all,

I have read some posts about this, but I am still unclear which route to go based on what we are trying to do.

We are going to be producing 50 or so devices, over a three month period, which will have our most recent XPE image on them.
Our image will be created by putting one on a target machine, installing all of our applications, then resealing that image.
The produced devices will not have a floppy drive or a CDROM, but they do have PXE boot capabilities.
We would like to put the “master image” on a server and boot each device with PXE then transfer the “master image” remotely to the target machines’ hard drive.

Is this possible? If so, does this sound like an efficient way to streamline the process of putting the master image onto a device?

I have a working DHCP server and TFTP server working on an XP Pro PC that I downloaded here: http://tftpd32.jounin.net/
I know that they DHCP server works, but I’m not very clear on the TFTP server. We have downloaded a trial for creating boot ROMs from emBoot (http://www.emboot.com/products_pxe.htm) but our network cards only support a 500K image. I thought that I read somewhere that we could boot into a “bootstrap loader” which would allow us to transfer the image (is that true?), but I can’t seem to find any way of creating this “bootstrap loader.”

Thanks for you help,
Jason
You might want to look into WinPE and the Remote Boot Server which comes with the XPe tools...



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