On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Florian Effenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> might be a little bit off-topic, but I think we have real experts on
> this list, so I wanted to give it a try. ;-) Does anyone of you know
> how to remotely install Vista from Linux? With XP, I've made great
> experience with the free BINL server from
> http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php, but for Vista, I'm out of luck.
> The RIS model changed to WDS, from what I know - I guess something
> like booting the PE image remotely should work. Any pointers you can
> give me would be great!
>
> I want to avoid booting into Linux and then going into Vista, as this
> usually involves fiddling around with hardware support in Linux. Using
> the Windows setup directly (like with the BINL script and TFTP boot)
> works fine, so I'm searching for a method to do so with Vista.
>
> Thanks
> Florian
>
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I installed Vista over the network by creating a Windows PE boot disk
and then mounting the network drive using "net use" and running the
setup executable. This also works for Windows Server 2008.

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