Wds xp install

The local server is selected by default. On the Select server roles page, scroll down and then select the Windows Deployment Services check box. Click Next. Remote Server Administration Tools are required to manage this feature. Select Include management tools if applicable.

Click Add Features. On the Select role services page, select the role services to install for Windows Deployment Services. If you wish to install both the Deployment Server and Transport Server, leave these role services selected. Windows Deployment Services will now be added to the server.

Installation progress will now be illustrated in the Add Roles and Features Wizard. Transport Server does not require any additional roles or services. Both of these services require an NTFS partition for the file store. You will also need to add at least one boot image and one install image to the image store.

After you install the Windows Deployment Service role, you must configure the server. Once you have used the instructions in this section to configure the server, add a boot image, and an install image, you will be ready to deploy images. Then, you can use the instructions in the rest of this guide to perform more advanced tasks like creating your own install images, creating discover images, or configuring an unattended installation.

If Windows Deployment Services is installed in Standalone mode, it can be configured without having a dependency on Active Directory. There are two configuration options for Windows Deployment Services. It can be configured to integrate with Active Directory or be configured as a standalone server. To configure the server role in Standalone mode, use the following procedure.

Then see the following section to add images to the server. On the Remote Installation Folder Locations page, choose the default path or enter your own path to the remote installation folder. On the PXE Server Initial Settings page, choose desired option to define which client computers this server will respond to.

This will complete the configuration of Windows Deployment Services. When the configuration is completed clear the Add images to server now check box, and then click Finish. If you want to modify any of the settings of the server, right-click the server in the MMC-snap in, and click Properties. Now that you have configured the server, you will need to add images.

These images include a boot image which is the bootable environment that you initially boot the computer into, and the install images which are the actual images that you deploy.

For instructions, see Steps for adding images. You may skip this if you have chosen to install Standalone mode, and proceed to Steps for adding images. To install Windows Deployment Services integrated with Active Directory, the following prerequisites are required.

To configure the Windows Deployment Services server role integrated with Active Directory, use the following procedure. On the Install options page, choose Integrated with Active Directory.

Now that you have configured the server integrated with Active Directory, you will need to add your images. For instructions, see the next section, Steps for adding images. You must add at least one boot image and one install image before you will be able to boot to the Windows Deployment Services server and install an image.

Boot images. Boot images are Windows PE images that you boot a client computer into to perform an operating system installation. In most scenarios, you should use the Boot. The Boot. Install images. Install images are the operating system images that you deploy to the client computer. You can also use the Install. The following instructions use Windows 7 installation media as an example for creating an install image that can be deployed with Windows Deployment Services.

You can also use the same instructions for server installation media. Browse to choose the default boot image Boot. On the Image Metadata page, enter the desired image name and description. After you have at least one boot and one install image on the server, you can deploy an install image. Select the appropriate boot image from the boot menu. This boot image selection menu will be available only if you have two or more boot images on the server.

Click OK. At the Install Windows dialog box, select the operating system you wish to install. If you only have one operating system to install, choose that and click Next. If prompted at the Where do you want to install Windows page, select the partition you wish to install the operating system on. When you have multiple boot or install images available to client computers, clients will be presented with a boot and an install menu that displays the selection of images to choose from.

Windows Deployment Services allows you to set priorities to control the order that both boot and install image listings are presented to clients. This ability is integrated directly into Windows Deployment Services.

Click the Boot Images node. Click Properties. In the Image Properties dialog, on the General tab, enter in your desired priority into the Priority text box. The items that appear first on your install image menu are the ones with the lowest value. Double-click the Install Images node. You will see your image group or image groups appear as a sub menu item. Right-click your desired image within your image group from the right-hand side of your Windows Deployment Services MMC snap-in.

On the Image Properties dialog, in the General tab, enter in your desired priority into the Priority text box. When you have completed this procedure and you perform a PXE boot on a client computer, a boot or install menu with the menu order you set using priorities will appear.

Priorities are pre-populated with a default value that lets you place images higher or lower on the list. The items that appear first on the list are the ones with the lowest value. Optionally, you can create custom install images for Windows 8. To do this, use the instructions in this section to create a capture boot image, prepare a reference computer using Sysprep, and then capture the operating system using the Image Capture Wizard.

When you boot into the capture image, the Image Capture Wizard will start. Note the following points about this wizard:. If you do not run Sysprep on the computer before you boot into the image, you will not see any drives to capture.

You must enter a local location to save the new install image; otherwise, you will not be able to capture the image. This location can be a mapped network drive but we recommend that you use a local location to avoid image corruption in the event of a network malfunction.

To create an install image, you must first create a capture image. Capture images are boot images that you boot a client computer into to capture the operating system into a. These images provide an alternative to the command-line utility, ImageX. Except in advanced scenarios, you can create a capture image by using the Boot.

Right-click the image to use it as a capture image. In most cases, you can just use the Boot. Type in your Image Name, Image Description, and the location and file name where you want to save a local copy of the file. You must specify a location in case there is a problem with the network when you deploy the capture image.

Enter the location of the Windows Image file that contains the images. Enter your Image Name and Image Description. After you have created the capture image, follow the instructions in the next section to boot a computer into the capture image and capture the operating system.

Now that you have a capture image, you need to prepare a reference computer and then create the install image. The reference computer can be a computer with a standard Windows installation or a Windows installation that has been configured for your environment.

Anyone know where I can find other boot images that will work for this? Hi there, I have uploaded the file on the internet, on a private web site. If you want we can arrange to give you the access to it. HI there I have successfully imaged the XP and mouned on the server I get a screen with what looks like a display test screen with blocks of color. Is there no way to get around the HAL dependence? I thought that was the whole point of Sysprep.

To me, that seems to be a major disadvantage of WDS. My workplace has many different models of Dell computers that I need to deploy XP to, and it seems counterproductive to have to build one image for each model. Hi, i've made my image with imagex.

I added the boot. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks very much for the awesome guide! I'm running this off virtual machines and its working perfectly. Maybe u can help me, i have downloaded the boot. How to use this stuff so i can install it locally into my notebook? I've searhing around and found nothing about how to solve my problem in easy languange.

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Solved by cleaning and reformatting as FAT which you can convert to ntfs during install. I am going to write up the issues and resolutions - not sure where to post them however. How is everything going? I hope everything is OK with you. I noticed that you have downloaded the MDT, so is everything under control?

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