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

I'm not a linux guy, but I asked around, and we use SysLinux which
comes with PXELinux as part of the distro.

Hope that helps.
Jack

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:35:04 -0700, "SoWright"
<SoWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>With regards to you latest post, can you give me details on what Linux PXE
>system you are using? I am using a Windows Server 2003 system with RIS
>installed but not configured. This allows me to use PXELinux with TFTPD in
>windows to serve my floppy boot images. However, I have not been able to
>figure out a way to PXE boot with ISO images using this system. I only
>installed WinPE to the hard drive because I couldn’t figure out how to PXE
>boot to an ISO.
>
>Any details you can share are very much appreciated.
>
>"Jack" wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if I'm going to be any help.
>>
>> We are using a Linux PXE system, from which we are booting WinPE
>> directly from PXE. When our WinPE boots up, it starts networking, maps
>> a drive, lets us make some choices for the OS, then starts a network
>> based install by calling winnt32.exe.
>>
>> We experimented a little with PE on the HD. But went to network based
>> instead.
>>
>> Maybe someone else can help.
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:55:04 -0700, "SoWright"
>> <SoWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >The WinPE install is approximately 213MB, and with the OS source files I'm
>> >using about 829MB of disk space. I put all this on a DVD and booted from the
>> >DVD and the install runs with no problems. But if I install WinPE and the OS
>> >source files to the hard drive and boot from the hard drive, networking will
>> >not start and I get the "Out of Memory" error when I run winnt32.exe.
>> >
>> >I have 1GB of memory installed.
>> >
>> >Thanks for the input.
>> >
>> >"Jack" wrote:
>> >
>> >> How much RAM is in the BOX?
>> >>
>> >> How big is your WinPE install in MBs?
>> >>
>> >> Jack
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:17:02 -0700, "SoWright"
>> >> <SoWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Ok....since I was unable to find ADS 1.1, I tried the following.
>> >> >
>> >> >I built a 64bit version of WinPE and installed it to the hard drive of my
>> >> >destination computer using a DOS PXE boot environment. I also copied the
>> >> >64bit Extended OS source files to the hard drive. I was able to boot WinPE,
>> >> >but when I tried running Winnt32.exe, I got a pop up error "Out of Memory"
>> >> >and setup exited.
>> >> >
>> >> >Any thoughts?
>> >> >
>> >> >"Jack" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:01:06 -0800, "SoWright"
>> >> >> <SoWright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >Thanks....are you currently using RIS?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> No, We use ADS. We mainly deploy Windows Servers.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Jack
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

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