Boot XPE from network without "Remote Boot Services"

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eyal inbar

Hi,

In my organizatoin, I have option to start my computer from network.
In that way, I can recover computer from image (ghost), start computer with
dos and etc.
We are using in "3COM Image Editor" to create out menus and images disks.
Now, I want add option to start xpe from network.
The problem is that I can't use "Remote Boot Services" (which include in XPE
SP1) because I want that my clients
will be able to choose from menu what to load (ghost,dos or XPE).
I tried to add "startrom.com" to the pxe menu but I can't start XPE in that
way.

Any ideas how can I let the clients abillity to choose which image to load ?
(dos,ghost,xpe)

Thanks.
 
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eyal inbar

No, I don't use RIS.
The DHCP server send the menus to clients using option 67.
But I'll try to use RIS to manage my menus.

Thanks
 
K

KM

eyal,

There is no official (documented) way to accomplish what you ask for.
Do you use "3COM Image Editor" tool in conjuction with RIS? I used it a long
while ago to deploy DOS images to devices through RIS.
Then you may add a working XPe image (SDI) to the RIS downloadable directory
(please dig into the RIS directories for more details) and try to set up RIS
to use the image. However, I am not sure you still be able to download XPe
image through RIS with no problems.

KM
 

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