Re: Winnt.exe Unattended Setup for 64-bit Server 2003.

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:31:01 -0800, "SoWright"
<SoWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I have an environment where I setup all my servers by PXE booting them in a
>DOS environment and running winnt.exe from a remote server. I noticed that
>winnt.exe is no longer available in the CD for Windows Server 2003 for 64bit
>Extended Systems, only winnt32.exe is available. Does Microsoft no longer
>support setting up the 64 Operating Systems from a dos environment? Is there
>any kind of work around besides WinPE?

Short answer: Nope.

I have Win2k3 x64 installing over a network using PXE and WinPE. The
new version of Automated Deployment Services (ADS 1.1) will have the
ability to push WinPE over the ADS PXE.

I ran into the same problems you are facing now.
.

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