[itdiscuss] nLite ISO imaging over the network with PXE

[Justin Moore]

Take a look at Clonezilla. You can do PXE booting to capture and  
deploy images. The documentation/how-to at clonezilla.org for Ubuntu  
server will give you step by step info on how to set it up.

Justin Moore
IT Specialist


On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:25 AM, "Dayron Daugherty"  
<ddaugherty at precept.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>   Recently we had quite a few laptops donated to us. They are Dell
> x300s (no internal CD drives for these little guys) and we have only  
> one
> external CD\DVD drive that came with all of them.
>
> Because of time limitations I have created a boot Cd that works
> wonderfully (we just need XP on these with pre-loaded drivers). I have
> another USB CD drive I am booting too now so I'm up to 2 images at a
> time. However I'd like to push out the image to the remaining laptops
> via PXE is possible. Any thoughts, suggestions?
>
> I tried WDS in legacy mode and I'm having issues with it that I don't
> have time to trouble shoot. I can get my laptops to PXE boot, but I
> don't see the default XP install I was under the impression WDS was
> supposed to serve up when it pulls the XP source files when I first
> configured it.
>
> Anyway I can trouble shoot WDS in the mean time I image the laptops  
> via
> CD. I guess any suggestions with PXE\iso images and\or WDS legacy  
> would
> be much appreciatd.
>
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