pxeboot windows xp clients from fedora

[Justin Willmert]

Rudolf Kastl wrote:

>2006/1/26, Skunk Worx <skunkworx at verizon.net>:
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>>is it possible to pxeboot a running windows xp image (not an
>>installation image) with pxeboot and linux/fedora?
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>>i've been trying to start by serving a windows boot floppy through tftp
>>and following the PXELINUX howtos but i always get a "System Disk Error"
>>rather than "A:\" (which I do get booting the floppy in the drive on the
>>target client rather than using pxe).
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>>i ran across this project :
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>>http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/projects/storage/iboot/
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>>...which uses something like iScsi and an array of disk images to do
>>something kind of interesting, actually boots running clients and allows
>>them to modify the image over the network.
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>>anyway most of the howto's for pxeboot/pxelinux seem to address only
>>remote installations of windows products...i need to boot actual running
>>clients...with full windows XP, if possible.
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>>TIA,
>>SW
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>i am pretty sure that cant work (i have not much clue about windows though).
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>try putting a windows xp installed hd from one pc to another...
>chances are big that it doesent work properly... if not even that
>works... how would a network boot work?
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>just some thoughts...
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>regards,
>rudolf kastl
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My school has the media center setup with all diskless network boot 
clients. It works pretty slick, but I don't know how they do it. Sorry 
that I can't help with specifics, but it goes to show that Windows boots 
are possible.

Justin Willmert