Is there anyone out there familiar with the best way to do a Windows XP Home installation on multiple systems at one time. The senario a friend of mine has is a group of 30 blade servers which he will need to install Windows XP Home on each machine. Obviously he would like a way of doing without installing individually. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated. I did suggest imaging to him but we would like to find out if there are other possibilities. Thanks.
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Installation on multiple systems ... best way
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The best way is to buy the Blade servers with XP Home preinstalled.
I would use Acronis Snap Deploy:
With this or Symantec Ghost you could use a network based image for the installation. (Remember that XP Home does not support RIS; and is limited to five connections at a time).
Some day tell use why your friend chose Blade-type servers to run XP Home.
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I would use Acronis Snap Deploy:
With this or Symantec Ghost you could use a network based image for the installation. (Remember that XP Home does not support RIS; and is limited to five connections at a time).
Some day tell use why your friend chose Blade-type servers to run XP Home.
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Thanks Bcaster ... I am not sure why but I will ask him when I speak to him. I think the issue you mentioned with Home not supporting RIS is a key point that I was not aware of and I think he may not have known. Thank you for your help and any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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