MTH7806, obviously … MTH7806, obviously you dont know anyting about PXE boot. There is NO boot diskette, no boot USB nothing. You boot up ANY pc and press the PXE boot key, it connects to the network using the embeded boot agent of the network card (not any diskette or driver) then connects and pulls down an image file and loads the drivers.
this person is … this person is using Symantec Norton Ghost which i think everybody knows, it’s very easy to use it for the large companies if they use same computers and gives you an option to create a boot disk (i used diskette but you get an option to create a CD as well), you need to select a network card type and based on that you create a boot disk and you can install the image through the network if the windows image is located on the server or you can install it from your laptop using a cross cable.
Or you could rig up … Or you could rig up an old computer (1gb RAM Pentium 4 is fine) and install Ubuntu + FOG (free open source imaging solution). No need for an expensive server. Just an old spare computer.
The server portion … The server portion of this is running on my WinXP laptop. i basically have a cross-over cable between the laptops, or i have it just on the lan. My WinXP laptop does all the DHCP and TFTP itself. However at work, i loaded all of this on one of our servers, and now we can image a machine ANYWHERE on the network
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How to PXE boot any machine using freeware. No need for expensive server running Ghost or Altiris
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MTH7806, obviously …
MTH7806, obviously you dont know anyting about PXE boot. There is NO boot diskette, no boot USB nothing. You boot up ANY pc and press the PXE boot key, it connects to the network using the embeded boot agent of the network card (not any diskette or driver) then connects and pulls down an image file and loads the drivers.
this person is …
this person is using Symantec Norton Ghost which i think everybody knows, it’s very easy to use it for the large companies if they use same computers and gives you an option to create a boot disk (i used diskette but you get an option to create a CD as well), you need to select a network card type and based on that you create a boot disk and you can install the image through the network if the windows image is located on the server or you can install it from your laptop using a cross cable.
Or you could rig up …
Or you could rig up an old computer (1gb RAM Pentium 4 is fine) and install Ubuntu + FOG (free open source imaging solution). No need for an expensive server. Just an old spare computer.
There is no PXE …
There is no PXE software.
the software used is tftpd32.exe and srvany.exe + instsrv.exe to make it a service to always run
which pxe and tftp …
which pxe and tftp software are you using in Windows xp
very nice
i would …
very nice
i would like to thank you for showing what software you used for the server
The server portion …
The server portion of this is running on my WinXP laptop. i basically have a cross-over cable between the laptops, or i have it just on the lan. My WinXP laptop does all the DHCP and TFTP itself. However at work, i loaded all of this on one of our servers, and now we can image a machine ANYWHERE on the network
Dude… I’m …
Dude… I’m studying on how to do this.. what OS are you using as your DHCP server?? what is your physical setup like?