Re: Remote Boot Windows XPE?


The article you are refering is RIS not RBS. There is a difference. RIS installs the OS to the hard drive. RBS downloads the XPe image to RAM and it runs from a RAM disk. I have never seen a delay in downloading a XPE image to run on a thin client.

Other DHCP servers on the network are not support in the RBS model. DHCP has to come from Windows Server since a modification to port 60 is required during the RBS setup. There are some free DHCP server add ons to XP Pro, but these don't allow for changes to port 60.

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Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"Luke Alcatel" <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OkDrXppNIHA.4476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Correct. Neither version of the RBS cares or knows anything about the DHCP server except for needing to know whether it is on the same machine or a different machine. In my system DHCP is not even a computer -- it is provided by a board level switch/router. I am not aware that there are two RBS systems on the CD -- if so maybe that occurred in a recent SP. I have always used the RBS on the CD with XP Pro and my board-level DHCP but this RBS has not worked with Win 2003 Server. When I first tried to use RBS on Win 2003 I found that I needed to download from the link further down in this thread.

One more thing about RBS performance. On newer "legacy free" hardware both of the RBS servers for XPe fail. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906425
for the fix required. Although this KB makes no direct mention of XPe the fix does work for both XPe RBS systems. I lost a lot of time before finding this solution and I am disappointed that the XPe team has not identified this issue.

Luke

"KM" <konstmor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:upBa0ueNIHA.6108@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IIRC, you can use RBS on an XP Pro machine as long as you have access to a DHCP server (DHCP server could be running on WS2003 or even linux box). Basically you only need to set up DHCP options to direct the clients to the right TFTP server on the network.

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KM


"Sean Liming (MVP)" <sean_liming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eMtqxdeNIHA.2308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

There are two versions that come with the XPe CD - one for W2K server and the other for Win2003 Server. XP Pro is not supported because you need a DHCP server

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"Luke Alcatel" <luke@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23U0hs6dNIHA.5264@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
At the risk of correcting Sean I believe that the RBS that comes "in the box" is compatible with W2K and XP Pro but not W2003 Server. There is an update that you can download for W2003.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32379B6F-1F3A-4194-8E26-A4C9653ADBC5&displaylang=en

Luke

"Sean Liming (MVP)" <sean_liming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OKOVPRVNIHA.4656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, XPe can boot from an network and load the image to run in RAM. The
tools come with a Remote Boot Service object ot install on Windows 2003
server with DHCP enabled.

The image will have to run on a hard drive first to get past FBA, and then
you can create the final downloadable carrier file. The amount of RAM in the
target must be twice the image size.

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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
"Benjamintohc" <Benjamintohc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C765DB2E-47CE-4A75-90A6-EDB24CFD3712@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I need to boot 32 diskless clients on my test setup into Windows XP/E through
network boot. Is this possible?

I cannot install Windows into any of the 32 x86 clients due to space
contraints but I can have a PXE server available.

Is this possible? What charges ($$$) am I looking at?

Thanks in advance folks









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