Network Boot With WIN XP PRO??

r_stripe · 02-16-03, 12:50 AM

Hey just a quick question, Im about ready to fork out some cash and build me a Seti Stack and I we already know the walk through for the linux red hat network boot for booting computers without hardrives posted on the ocsetiteam site. My question is, I know this could be done in NT but does anyone know how to set up xp pro to serve requests for network boot. This would be great in shaving costs for the stack and allow a few more cpu's to be purchased instead of wasting the money on hardrives. Also does anyone know how to make the floppy boot disk for this also?? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

su root · 02-18-03, 10:27 AM

You cannot boot a Windows OS over the network. As for a network boot server, you can do it, but only with Win2k Server running RIS (Remote Installation Services), and you can only network boot a Win2k Install with this.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were mods to let you boot linux though, but I havn't found any.

02-16-03, 12:50 AM	Thread Starter #1
r_stripe Registered Join Date: Aug 2001	Network Boot With WIN XP PRO?? Hey just a quick question, Im about ready to fork out some cash and build me a Seti Stack and I we already know the walk through for the linux red hat network boot for booting computers without hardrives posted on the ocsetiteam site. My question is, I know this could be done in NT but does anyone know how to set up xp pro to serve requests for network boot. This would be great in shaving costs for the stack and allow a few more cpu's to be purchased instead of wasting the money on hardrives. Also does anyone know how to make the floppy boot disk for this also?? Any help would be greatly appreciated. __________________ Athlon 1.333 @ 1680 2.2 volts 10 x 168 Duron 850 @ 1080 [1.85 volts 9 x 120
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02-18-03, 10:27 AM	#2
su root Senior Member -- I teach people how to read your email. Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Ontario, Canada	You cannot boot a Windows OS over the network. As for a network boot server, you can do it, but only with Win2k Server running RIS (Remote Installation Services), and you can only network boot a Win2k Install with this. I wouldn't be surprised if there were mods to let you boot linux though, but I havn't found any. __________________ "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, Ill use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
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