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[detroit]

I'm a student on job experience in this certain company... They've given me a task to find the best and well semi to fully automated system deployment. And i've figured pxe is the way, so i can use tftp32 and pxelinux.0 boot file (which i dunno how to handle that much:)
The thing is we get like 100computers with same hardware specifications to install in few days.We use normal desktop computer with tftp32 and emboot bootfile but this emboot doesnt support any bigger image then 1.44(atm only ms-dos with network support can fit on 1.44 img, which uses ghost from server to deploy image that's as well on the server), what if i wanted 32bit environment like BartPe that takes like 200mb or so how can i set it up?

i hope this was understandable

[was_jaclaz]

Welcome to the board, Detroit.

Not exactly what you asked for, but do have a look at this:
http://winner.windowsdream.com/

On the other hand, there are no problems in using pxe to boot off a .iso on a server, check here:
http://www.911cd.net...showtopic=19487
AND links therein

Also, this elder thread might be useful:
http://www.911cd.net...?showtopic=9685

jaclaz

[detroit]

big thanks for now:D i'll get into reading as i'm just doing a mandatory job experience report (college thing) i gotta ask what does tftp do? dhcp provides adress, thought tftp provided boot file but not certain (boot image?!?)




p.s. i already read some about this "http://winner.windowsdream.com/" and i thought it was made for unattended not ghosting, my specific problem requires ghosting or w/e cloning since unattended is long and not needed since hardware is same on whole shipment i get (one image)....Well two since i use nlited xp with burnintest for 24h then normal riprepped xp.