Network installation of Win XP

[Dchan]

Hi there,

I need to install Win XP (PC1) from my networked CD Rom
(in PC2) as there is no CD Rom on PC1. The CMOS of PC1
allows it to be booted from network using PXE LAN as
first boot device. When I start PC1, it detects a Realtek
RTL8139(X)/8130/810X boot agent and detects a DHCP
server, however, it does not detect the boot file (PXE-
E53: No boot filename received, PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE
ROM). Do I have to install some sort of DOS network
client? What network client I can download from the
internet? Once I install this network client, how can PC1
detects the shared network CD Rom in PC2 so I can run the
Win XP setup file and install the O/S on PC1?

Thanks for the advice.

Daniel

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

In order to use PXE boot you need to have Windows Server 2000 or 2003
with RIS installed and configured.

If you only want to connect to a network share you can use a dos-disk
with ndis2 network drivers on...

check out http://www.bootdisk.com/

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

In order to use PXE boot you need to have Windows Server 2000 or 2003
with RIS installed and configured.

RIS is one option, but it is not the only one. I do most of my
Windows installations via network boot, and I have no Windows servers
at all.

See <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/>.

- Pat

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

Hi Pat

You are absolutely correct...

Thank you for correcting my post...

I should have written something like:
RIS is the more common one (FWIK) when using Microsoft platforms...

There are of course other PXE servers available than RIS. Both on the
Windows platform and the unix/linux platforms.

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net