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On March 21, the first day of MMS 2011, I announced the immediate availability of the Deployment Research blog and Deployment Research Facebook page. Sites filled with video-tutorials on how to deploy operating systems. Information about this new site, as well a bunch of other deployment related community sites was by the way also printed (thank you FedEx) and put in the attendee-bag (Thank you Microsoft) for every MMS 2011 attendee, about 4000 people.
This also means that the deployvista.com blog will not be much active anymore. It will still exist, but the content will gradually be migrated over to the new site, cleaned-up and converted into the new format…
Happy deployment, and I hope to see you online in the forums…
Regards / Johan Arwidmark
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Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
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| Posted by: johan |
9/15/2008 |
This is a step-by-step guide to boot DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS).
Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
- Create a DOS 7.10 image file (.ima) using winimage 8.10 (http://www.winimage.com). You can also download a DOS boot image from http://www.bootdisk.com/ and use winimage to convert it from .exe to .ima.
- Download and extract syslinux from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.71.zip (it contains pxelinux)
- Copy the syslinux-3.71\com32\menu\vesamenu.c32 file to your WDS Server, D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86
- Copy the syslinux-3.71\memdisk\memdisk file to your WDS Server, D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86
- Copy the syslinux-3.71\core\pxelinux.o to your WDS Server, D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86, rename it to pxelinux.com
- Download a nice background image (http://www.deployvista.com/Portals/0/DeploymentBackground.png), and save it in D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86
- In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 folders, make a copy of pxeboot.n12 and rename it to pxeboot.0
- Configure WDS to use the pxelinux.com boot file (Server properties, Boot tab)
- In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 or D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 folders, create a subfolder called pxelinux.cfg
- In the D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64\pxelinux.cfg or D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86\pxelinux.cfg folders, create a file named default with the following settings
DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
PROMPT 0
NOESCAPE 0
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
# Timeout in units of 1/10 s
TIMEOUT 300
MENU WIDTH 40
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 12
MENU TIMEOUTROW 14
MENU HSHIFT 5
MENU VSHIFT 2
MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TABMSG 1;36;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TITLE 1;36;44 #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SEL 30;47 #40000000 #20ffffff
MENU BACKGROUND DeploymentBackground.png
MENU TITLE PXE Boot menu
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 18
MENU ROWS 4
LABEL wds
MENU DEFAULT
MENU LABEL Windows Deployment Services
KERNEL pxeboot.0
LABEL local
MENU LABEL Boot from Harddisk
LOCALBOOT 0
LABEL dos710
MENU LABEL DOS 7.10
KERNEL memdisk keeppxe
append initrd=dos710.ima
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Re: Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS) |
By eskil on
12/16/2008 |
Hi,
It works great!
Have you tried to use WDS to deploy Windows Fundamentals?
Eskil Moe
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Re: Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS) |
By Daniel R on
10/9/2009 |
And after that? Where do I put the .ima-file from nr 1?
Sorry, feel your eminent guide stops a little abrupt.
/Daniel |
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Re: Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS) |
By tatsumasa on
2/9/2010 |
now that these folders are in place how do i get it to boot the pxelinux.com file in boot if its looking for a boot wim. and how do i get it as a boot wim
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Re: Booting DOS 7.10 images from Windows Deployment Services (WDS) |
By greg.hosilyk on
5/3/2010 |
We had a problem getting this to work with 2010 because you don't get the option to choose a boot program in the "boot" tab anymore. Further, it limits what you choose as a default boot image to WIMs you've already added to WDS.
In order to fix it we had to use the following command:
wdsutil /set-server /N12BootProgram:boot\x64\pxelinux.com /Architecture:x64
I'm not too sure about the architecture, we tried all of the steps above including this one with x86 and it didn't work, so then we tried this and it did work. Could be because the server is x64 or that wds was detecting our test laptop was x64 capable, I don't know. |
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