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Tutorial: Provision Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP

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This tutorial presents how to to perform remote, unattended installations of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. The following steps are necessary to create an "Install Instance" which is a directory in /home/tftpboot/pub/ that contains everything needed to provision Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP:

1)Copy an ISO file onto your LinMin Server (either by copying an ISO image from another source, or by converting the contents of a Microsoft-supplied Windows CD to an ISO image using the loaddvd.pl utility.)
2)Run the script loadwindows.pl to extract installation files from the .ISO file, and to create a directory containing the installation files for a given version of Windows. We call this a Windows “Custom Installation”.
3)Locate the additional drivers you need to supplement what came on the Windows CD or ISO file so that your system provisions successfully, and copy these drivers to specific directories. This is necessary because the Microsoft CDs were published before the drivers for new hardware existed. Pay particular attention to the need for 2 types of Network Interface Card (NIC) drivers: regular and Remote Installation Service (RIS).
4)Run the script addwindriver.pl to integrate the drivers into the Install Instance.
5)Deploy Windows using MAC-Specific or MAC-Independent provisioning. Use a browser or integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning into your control panel or other IT application using our API (Application Programming Interface).