All I have to say on that topic is, that Vista's PE plays quite nicely with a system that supports DHCP, TFTP and SMB/CIFS. It's quite easy to get it to netboot since it doesnt require a BINL-service. The bootloader downloads a RAMdisk via TFTP and starts Windows PE from RAM, drivers for network cards and hdd controllers are automatically detected as long as they are added to the image beforehand. (AND, you won't believe it, but this scenario is actually well-documented by MS)
I'm working with unattended since over a year now, though not really productive since we over here for some reason still go with the "one image for one hardware" setup. I see the effort put in unattended, and the idea of installing Windows via Linux doesnt miss a certain irony. But for me the way to go is using MS WinPE 2.0, but making it running with every system/server that can provide DNS, DHCP and CIFS. So far I'm just using AutoIt3 and SQLite. I'm using diskpart.exe to partition the drive, imagex.exe or unattended setup to install windows. I'm pulling the info for diskpart, imagex/sysprep and unattended setup from the database. So far the approach I'm trying is fully automated, but one sure could add a Wizard that gets prepopulated with options from the db. Thats how I'm trying to make service for our users better. Any suggestions or opinions on this? -- regards, Björn Kaiser ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
