hi, I have successfly setup pxe win xp install using this howto – some things I realized during setup:

* when I used 2 letter dir name for install dir, tftp remap “/tftp/xp” -> “/tftp/..no..” so rule in remap file should be

“rg /\.\./ /..no../”
# dots should be escaped – maybe the CMS striped out :]

* when I put xp install dir into subdir like /tftp/img/xp/i386 I realized that xp setup look files in wrong location – in “xp/i386” dir, so I remaping location at the end of remap file like this :

“r ^xp\/i386\/(.*) img/xp/i386/\1”
# xp/i386/* -> img/xp/i386/*

* I nLited only SP3 into my win xp install, no drivers…

* I used the DrivePacks “Mass Storage 11.09”, “LAN 11.09” and “Chipset 11.09” like I copied all “*.sys” and “*.inf” files from archives to i386 folder, than infpars /tftp/img/xp/i386 and restart binlsrv [filenames *sys, *inf have to be lowercase !]

* almost all errors I have seen were that tftpd could not find files, so when boot fail – look to the tftpd/syslog logfile

* I did not try install xp using pxe on the physical machine yet, only VM

IMHO: nice tricky straightforward howto :] thx
cheers ET


I tried reproduce creating win xp install dir with no luck so here is how I succefully created

1] copy i386 from cd
2] nlite SP3 only [ I tried unattended with no luck]
3] driverpack with archives above
4] copy all *inf *sys files from driverpack archives to i386
5] lowercase filenames in i386
6] infparse i386
7] binlsrv start

good luck