#WINDOWS XP PXELINUX INSTALL#
and change the order menu entries are displayed in. ensure that all files/directories in /var/lib/tftpboot/winpe/ are lower-case:įind /var/lib/tftpboot/winpe/ -type d -o -type f -exec mv timeout %TIMEOUT%.copy everything in c:\mount\Windows\Boot\PXE\ to your TFTP server’s /var/lib/tftpboot/winpe/ folder.Imagex /mount "C:\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\x86\winpe.wim" 1 c:\mount on the system with WAIK installed (likely the same server as MDT 2008), open the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt and run the following commands:.create /var/lib/tftpboot/winpe on your TFTP server.MDT 2008 allows you to completely automate, audit, and simplify installing Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 (including R2), Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista. Luckily, WAIK is a dependency of MDT, so if you’re installing MDT somewhere, then you’ll also have a copy of WAIK 2.0. You’ll also want to install the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and all of its dependencies somewhere (preferably a Windows Server 2003 SP2 system, but it should run fine on XP or later). You can find the files required to get Windows PE to PXE boot in winpe.wim included with the Windows Automated Installation Kit 2.0 (WAIK 2.0).
#WINDOWS XP PXELINUX TRIAL#
After a lot of trial and error (and much swearing), I finally have everything working the way it’s supposed to – although it’s a far cry away from being as flexible as I’d like. Most of the instructions I found online were either incomplete, or too specific to the user’s setup to be of much use. Of all of the network boot stuff I’ve done, setting up Windows PE to PXE boot using non-Microsoft solutions was by far the most challenging. Then switch on the router, wait 1 minute and the switch on your host PC.This article assumes that you have already read and completed the instructions from my previous PXE-related posts.
#WINDOWS XP PXELINUX PC#
PXE client is not receiving the DHCP offer or lots of timeouts, etc.) try switching off and on your router - if still no joy, switch off your host PC, client PC and router.