Step 3: The WINNER Way Part 1
- Press F12 when the laptop is booting and select Network boot. If you don’t see the Network option in your boot sequence, you’ll probably have to modify your BIOS settings.
- The Linux kernel will load.
- Choose the install interface that most suits your needs. In this guide we’ll use the graphical one, but both have exactly same possibilities. With some specific video adapters, the graphical interface cannot work properly (X11 will fail to display).
- Select Install Windows and click OK.
- Select the Yes option, the system will try to get an IP from DHCP (it should work, of course, since DHCP has been needed to boot on PXE).
- Choose the No option as we have created a windows share, the next screen will allow you to find the share.
- Select SMB
- Give the IP of the box that shares the C:\OUTPUT folder… in my example it was 192.168.2.100 this can be seen in the Tftpd32 dialog.
- Type the name of the share, which is OUTPUT in our sample
- Type a valid user to access the share (domain\user syntax is valid; a user with no domain, like in this example, means this is a local user)
- Type the users password
- Finally, the path to the source files. In our example, there is a \\192.168.2.100\OUTPUT share, no subdir, and therefore the path here is just /. But we could also say the share was \\192.168.2.100\C$, and then, the path would have been /OUTPUT
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[...] Your netbook seems to support PXE install. You can google 'windows pxe install' These are instructions for doing it if you've got another machine running windows: http://www.lockstockmods.net/2008/04…work-with-pxe/ [...]
i am stuck at just after
trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default
could not find kernel image: linux
boot:
then it stops i can type but it does nothing
and i dont know what to type if i did
any suggestions welcome on what i could do next
thank you in advance
Check the link in the first paragraph (in red) that leads to the easier method, that might help you
Hi,
Im facing problem in windows installation. My Intel atom PC is downloading linux images and launching Sysangel installer correctly. After that my PC is not getting ip from the DHCP server. Driver for my network card is not there in the launched linux.
Could you please tell me how i can procede……
Thanks,
Had the problem with SysAngel crashing every time it tried to slipstream SP2 into the WindowsXP disc so had to do this manually myself (nLite worked fine for it).
Then it finally made the bloody ISO!
[...] Install Windows over the network with PXE
[...] Install Windows over the network with PXE
Just to let everyone know it takes a long time to download every thing :p. Ha My captcha word is frustrated
nice information
how big is the initrg.gz
Awesome! Saved my laptop for me.
Had a couple of minor glitches which I managed to sort:
First where DVD Generator hung looking to download WinXp Service Packs so I slipstreamed SP3 to my install files using:
http://www.hfslip.org/
Also needed to keep the c:\output\tmp\i386 folder from being deleted by saving and maintaining a text file open in the folder using notepad until DVD G had finished doing its stuff.
Thanks for your help!
Extremely useful how-to. Thanks for it. Really saved me from swapping disks between computers and so on. Thanks again!
this is great …..you are right about the coffe and book ….i needed a full night …. bot worked
…thanks a lot …good luck
Hi Kobe,
Thanks for your response. After I posted my question, I did a bit of picking & prodding around and decided to skip sysangel altogether and jump ahead to your step 5. Didn’t exactly work like a charm but I finally managed to get the full WindowsXP installer and ran got it to start the installation. Am now popsting from my newly-installed lappie! Thanks a bunch!
Will definitely give ur other easy installation a whirl when I have the time, but this lappie had to leave with my M-I-L by tomorrow… lol!
Just a coupla typos/suggestions, check the text in the default file matches with the file names in the dos folder. And yes, Chris’ tip for amending/including the slashes helped as well…
For troubleshooting network booting issues, keep ur eyes on tftp’s log screen – VERY useful! That’s all really.
Cheers to all who helped!
Quirino Cardozo,
India
Guys, I was really thrilled to find this post as I’m trying to re-install windowsXP on an old lappie (Dell C400) for my dad to learn computers. It had XP mind u, but I HAD to be the smartass and remove the internal hdd and go and format it thinking I’d install the “lite” version of WinXP as I’ve had amazing performance with it past many years. Problem is, while installing sysangel DVD Generator I get this “Source file C:\DOCUM…(full install temp path)…pskill.exe file not found”. So I can’t go beyond step 1..
(
Anyone else face this? And any fixes? Would appreciate any help peeps…
P.S.: Before anything else, a BIG THANKS to the guy who posted this! Cheers m8!
Quirino Cardozo
Dubai, U.A.E
Originally from (Goa & Bombay, India)
I give up. I selected followed the steps on page 1 and 2, but when i set my other laptop to network boot, it waits and then it just goes back to my grub like it cant find anything. You think its my i.p address’s cos the cables fine, i network fine with it in windows. Or maybe i made a mistake?
Hi.
I’m trying to do a network install since i dont have cd/floppy or USB. I follow the instructions but end up at stage 3 where my boot get an error stating it is unable to locate configuration file. It is trying to load pxelinux.cfg/default.
Now,i thought then i had named the default file wrong, but i have have tried to do it right a couple of times now without luck. I’m close to giving up:(
I see that some others here had the same problem but they have not gotten any answers to their problem.
Anyone that can help?
leseid
Hi,
I really would like to get this to work but I’m new to networking and stuff. What is the “IP Pool Starting Address”? Also is the the “default gateway” the same as “default router”?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=w98senetboot.IMA
to those who had trouble with the memdisk file for loading
I have a cd-rom problem too… Maybe the 12. step is wrong, beacuse there is the i386 folder path.
I am trying some possibilities for the 12. step. :S
Hi, thanks for a very, VERY useful guide. I successfully installed windows on my r100 laptop which has no floppy or cd drive. I also found this site handy: http://www.windowsdream.com/winner/doc/using2.html
cheers.
Just some problems I had. I had to use my router, not a direct cable. I had to create an admin account with a password for the “release repository” part using smb to work. I had to use “20000″ of my hard drive (not the whole thing). The sys angel image includes heaps of little programs (undelete, reader, clamwin antivirus, gimp, xchat etc etc) I would have not included these had i the choice. The total time it took me was 2 days! (inc time to solve problems) 3 hours for sys angel to dl all the data. 2 hrs for the installation process. However, now i have a working laptop
When i set the pxelinux.cfg folder and the pxelinux.0 in my c:\OUTPUT folder, setting up the tftp, on my test computer, it detects the dhcp, and the ip address, but after that it exits the pxe rom. anyone able to help?
Hello everybody, hey Cris,i saw your post, i solve my last problem with the default file, let me say that we have to put the default name inside “”, when save the file write: “default” and done.
but the system could not find kernel image, i read your post and i have no idea where i can find that information, can you tell me please how i can solve the kernel image, thanks so much to write back. my e mail ramyax-arrow-hotmail.com
so…yes sysangel is badass… everything is working for my install, except the final throw, where I’m getting the same issue with “no valid windows source could be found in local CD rom” It cannot find a valid i386 dir” Looking for C.72, C.tar.gz
I have tried everything rebuild iso, re-slipstream, and just copying flat i386. Still no worky:( followed the instructions to a t at least 10 times.
I found another post that mentioned maybe corrupt file or driver conflict? just wanted to mention iI’m having issue also… any suggestions welcome
Did all of it getting unable to locate configuration file during pxe boot.
I am stuck at step 2 at the end. the pxe loader on the destination machine keeps coming up with the error “Unable to locate configuration fail” Thanks
I followed all the steps of this tutorial but…. when it comes cu search for I386 folder, sysangel try, as the only option, to search on cd-rom, even i don’t have one.
What should I do to make sysangel use the I386 from the OUTPUT folder ?!
Thank you !
Tried that it hangs unfortunately. I’m now upto the point in text mode of selecting Windows source media and I get No valid Windows source could be found in your local cd-rom drive.
If you are having trouble with this guide, try the easy guide linked in the first paragraph
I’m unable to get this working in graphical mode, does anyone have any guide for Text mode?
Thanks
For some reason my laptop will not boot the graphical interface, i get a message saying that eth1 signature incorrect an then it goes into standyby?
I’ve tried step 1 to step 4. And I still get the same problem. I get to step 3 where it askes me for user name password ect it connects and tells me to insert a cd rom. It doesn’t even start the steps of asking me anything about the windows installation itself.
Any ideas?
@Rupert what tweaking did you need to do and what typos did you need to correct? If any of you guys have any suggestions for improving articles please let me know, you can email me directly: kode-at-lockstockmods.net change the -at- to the at sign of course
@Greg what was the problem and how did you solve it? In case any others have the same problems
But glad you got it working
You are a genius
After a bit of tweaking…
and correcting a few typos…
It worked beautifully!
I left a message earlier. I solved the hdd not found problem. Thanks
When my sysangel dvd gui starts, it says no hdd could be found. How to solve it?
dvd generator it’s take lot time to complete prepation for DVD setup,then its need so many answers to complete installations without inf file same winnt.sif to complete unattenad installation
thanks
ali_ekri@hotmail.com
also share the DOS directory
one note though,
in this part
“kernel memdisk
append initrd=w98se-netboot.IMA”
I had to put slashes for netboot to load like this
“kernel /memdisk
append initrd=/w98se-netboot.IMA”
easy fix though thanks again
Hey “steve muller” kiss my ass this guy gets a full round of beer free on the house for posting that last tidbit of info on bypassing the “need windows cd” No other site has that info and the other sites are useless without that piece. /cheers for a good guide
would have been nice to know that dvd generator was going to use all my internet time to download needed software and file updates BEFORE I started.
Thanks