[help] Installing Win xp over IPXE

[robinsmidsrod]

Normally the way to install Windows using iPXE is to use wimboot. You can find more information about that at http://ipxe.org/wimboot and http://ipxe.org/howto/winpe.

I believe it is possible to install Windows XP from a Windows 7 boot.wim, but I haven't actually tried it. If you try, and it doesn't work, please include logs or screenshots of where things are going wrong, and we'll try to help you out. I'm assuming you're installing to local drives, not iSCSI volumes? If you are installing to iSCSI, then you need sanbootconf for Windows XP.

If you need some help in understanding the BIOS boot process you might also find some help for beginners over at http://networkboot.org.