Network ISO install of Windows 2003

[outonalimb]

In Fedora/RHEL you can install the OS from an ISO image on an NFS share on the network. All you need is a network boot CD for this to work.

You now know what i'm going to ask....!

Is it possible to put ISO images of our various Windows CD's on an NFS share and install Windows from them instead of using CD's or RIS?

Therefore, all i'd need would be a network boot CD that would ask for an NFS shared directory.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[itsp1965]

See although you can mount ISO images as drives in Windows, as far as I know it can only be done after Windows is installed, or if you are setting up Windows under VMware (don't know about Virtual server)
For a network installation, the files would have to be extracted (as far as I know)

 

[GunnarD]

Why not use ghost with sysprep?

 

[LawnBoy]

I haven't tried it, but I don't see why not. Using the same boot CD you're using for Fedora; It is that bootup kernel that is reading the ISO.

I use a SuSE bootup kernel to load windows images on a regular basis. Those images are not ISO files, but the difference may only be semantic.

You've already got the mechanism in place, you just need an ISO. Give it a shot and let us know how it goes.


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