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#1 User is offline   Cletus Van Damme 

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  Posted 26 June 2008 - 03:55 AM

Hello,

My current set up is a PXELINUX installation that has a web frontend that you can use to configure it with. I have set up multiple unattended Linux installation options for it but Windows is proving to be a bit of a problem. I know I could use Windows PE for unattended Windows XP and Vista installations but I have no idea how I could make different PXELINUX options for them.

Here's the relevant part of the pxelinux configuration:
# Windows PE
label b9
MENU LABEL Windows PE
MENU HIDE
kernel boot\pxeboot.0


It boots Windows PE fine but I really need to figure out how I could use just the PXELINUX configuration to make Windows PE load a different image, set a variable or anything at all. Having a separate menu inside Windows PE or with the Microsoft bootloader would be highly undesirable since it would require hitting a key on every workstation that needs to be installed.


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Posted 06 July 2008 - 09:42 PM

If you figure this one out, please let us know.

Currently those of us using pxelinux to boot our winpe images, have to use a HTA or AutoIt3 GUI once it is loaded.

Would be nice to be able to use other options via pxelinux.

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Posted 08 July 2008 - 06:12 PM

What I do is have a template pxelinux boot instruction file and then use a batch script to copy the template to 0%macAddress% (I have a csv file with a list of mac addresses, computernames etc)
When the PCs boot they boot into the desired OS, when they've finished their task the pxeboot file is deleted

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