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| ====== Booting Windows XP SP2 over SMB ====== | ====== Booting Windows XP SP2 over SMB ====== | ||
| - | Windows XP SP2's RIS support allows for it to boot entirely over SMB. | + | Windows XP SP2 Professional's RIS support allows for it to boot entirely over SMB. (Technically, the initial boot files are transferred over TFTP.) |
| ===== Setup the Share ===== | ===== Setup the Share ===== | ||
| + | Create a directory on your hosting Windows system called **C:\NetXP\**. | ||
| ===== Copy a Windows XP SP2 Installation ===== | ===== Copy a Windows XP SP2 Installation ===== | ||
| + | Install a fresh Windows XP SP2 installation on the target computer (perhaps a VM). For best results, make it a pretty vanilla (plain) install by choosing default options as much as possible. | ||
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| + | Make sure to install the NIC. This will populate **C:\Windows\Inf\** with the ***.INF** file (perhaps as **OEM*.INF**) as well as copy the ***.SYS** driver into **C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\**. Once installed, use Device Manager and __un-install__ the NIC. Be careful of the NIC re-installing on reboots. You want to make sure it is un-installed before copying this Windows installation into the SMB share. | ||
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| + | Shut down the target computer. Remove its HDD and attach it to your hosting Windows system. Copy all of the files from the target Windows installation into your **C:\NetXP\** directory. | ||
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| + | C:\>xcopy /e /h e:\* c:\netxp\ | ||
| + | ... ... ... | ||
| + | C:\>dir /a c:\netxp | ||
| + | Volume in drive C is HostXP | ||
| + | Volume Serial Number is BA3E-07C9 | ||
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| + | Directory of C:\NetXP | ||
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| + | 03/15/2009 18:47 <DIR> . | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 18:47 <DIR> .. | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 14:51 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 14:46 211 boot.ini | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 14:51 0 CONFIG.SYS | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 18:47 <DIR> Documents and Settings | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 14:51 0 IO.SYS | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 14:51 0 MSDOS.SYS | ||
| + | 08/04/2004 08:00 47,564 NTDETECT.COM | ||
| + | 08/04/2004 08:00 250,032 NTLDR | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 18:44 <DIR> Program Files | ||
| + | 03/15/2009 18:37 <DIR> Windows | ||
| + | 7 File(s) 297,807 bytes | ||
| + | 5 Dir(s) 3,403,010,048 bytes free | ||
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| + | Make a backup of the target's registry: | ||
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| + | C:\>cd netxp\windows\system32 | ||
| + | C:\NetXP\Windows\System32>xcopy /e /h config Config.Untouched\ | ||
| + | ... ... ... | ||
| + | 73 File(s) copied | ||
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| + | Copy and decompress **I386\SETUPLDR.BI_** from your Windows XP installation disk as **C:\NetXP\NTLDR**: | ||
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| + | C:\NetXP\Windows\System32>cd c:\netxp | ||
| + | C:\NetXP>copy d:\i386\setupldr.ex_ c:\netxp | ||
| + | 1 file(s) copied. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | C:\NetXP>expand setupldr.ex_ setupldr.exe | ||
| + | Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.1.2600.0 | ||
| + | Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved. | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Expanding setupldr.ex_ to setupldr.exe. | ||
| + | setupldr.ex_: 117845 bytes expanded to 240640 bytes, 104% increase. | ||
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| + | C:\NetXP>del setupldr.ex_ | ||
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| + | C:\NetXP>attrib -s -h -r ntldr | ||
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| + | C:\NetXP>ren ntldr ntldr.old | ||
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| + | C:\NetXP>copy setupldr.exe ntldr | ||
| + | 1 file(s) copied. | ||
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| ===== Modify the Directory Structure ===== | ===== Modify the Directory Structure ===== | ||
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| + | ===== Limitations ===== | ||
| + | ==== Number of Clients ==== | ||
| + | Only one client at a time can be booted with this setup, unless you duplicate the share for each client. If you want to save disk space, you could use lots of hard-linking for pretty well every file except the pagefiles and registries, but this is a huge mess without a batch file to set it up. | ||
| + | ==== NetBIOS Resolution ==== | ||
| + | The Windows host's NetBIOS name must be resolvable by the client. Commonly, you want them to be on the same subnet. | ||
