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Using Linux to install Windows XP with
Network booting
1E Technical Whitepaper
OSD and Linux
Abstract
This paper discusses how to network-install Windows XP using a Linux server.
Using Linux to install Windows XP with Network booting
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Contents Page i
Contents
Introduction
1
Architecture
1
Prerequisites
1
Configuring Linux
2
Installing Linux Packages
2
RIS-Linux
2
Configuring DHCP
2
Configuring TFTP
3
The Boot Files
3
Configuring Samba
4
Copying the WinPE Files
4
Copying the Package Files
4
Starting the BINL Server
4
Network Booting the Client PC
6
Selecting the Operating System Package
6
Summary
8
Acknowledgements
8
Information
9
Pricing and packaging information
9
More information
9
Using Linux to install Windows XP with Network booting
Introduction Page 1
Introduction
This paper shows you how you can use a Linux based infrastructure to deploy
Windows XP images to machines on your network. This section gives a brief
overview of the architecture that will be used to achieve the deployment and a
list of the prerequisites for following the procedure.
Architecture
To install Windows XP over the network requires the following components:
•
A DHCP server that supports PXE options.
•
A Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server.
•
A Boot Information Negotiation Layer (BINL) server.
•
A CIFS/SMB server.
Prerequisites
•
A Windows XP CD. I used Service Pack 2.
•
A WinPE boot CD created using the SMS Operation System Deployment
feature pack (OSD).
•
You will also need two computers: one server and one client.
Using Linux to install Windows XP with Network booting
 Configuring Linux Page 2
Configuring Linux
Installing Linux Packages
In this paper, we describe using a Debian GNU/Linux box as the server. Other
variants of Linux or Unix will work as well, but you should bear in mind that
installation details will vary.
We start by taking one of our lab machines, LAB2-17, and installing a copy of
Debian on it. We will install the “sarge” (testing) distribution of Debian.
First we need to install some extra packages:
# apt-get install tftpd-hpa
# apt-get install dhcp3-server
# apt-get install samba
# apt-get install cabextract
# apt-get install syslinux
# apt-get install wget
We might also want some other packages for debugging:
# apt-get install tftp-hpa
# apt-get install ethereal
# apt-get install smbclient
RIS-Linux
In order to make this work properly, you will also need the files from
Most importantly, this includes a BINL server, implemented in Python.
# cd
# tar xvfz ris-linux.tar.gz
# cp –a ris-linux/* /usr/local/bin
This leaves the scripts in
/usr/local/bin
, which should be in your
$PATH
variable.
Configuring DHCP
On Debian, the DHCP server configuration is held in
/etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
. Our
example looks like this:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.200;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
option routers 192.168.0.17;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.17;
option domain-name "lab2.local";
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
allow bootp;
host lab2-18 {
hardware ethernet 00:01:02:03:04:05;
fixed-address 192.168.0.18;
server-name “192.168.0.17”;
next-server 192.168.0.17;
filename “startrom.0”;
}
}
We have one server, called
lab2-17
, IP address 192.168.0.17; and one client,
called
lab2-18
, IP address 192.168.0.18.
Items of note are the “allow bootp” line, the “server-name” and “next-server”
entries, and the “filename” entry. The server-name and filename entries tell
the PXE client where to find the TFTP server, and which file to request from it.
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