Is this possible

[andyturpie]

Morning,

 

We have a CC4.5 estate and we use PXE to re-image machines, what I would like to do would be able to take a CD boot disk of diagnostic tools and be able to add an option in PXE boot to point to the server to load the diag tools rather than faff around with disks. Having looking through WDS where our current .wims are for boot and install, it only gives me an option to add a .wim.

 

How would I go about adding the files, would I have to convert the CD boot disk to a wim file or are there other methods?

 

Thanks!

[sted]

yes i did it a long enough time ago i forgot how. But i have a wim file that boots into a cut down version of win7 with a gui and has a few tools ghost for example and network boots fine (granted its so old most pcs now boot to it and have no network but it can do pen drives if they are inserted pre boot). So it can be done

[sted]

Win7RescuePE - reboot.pro is what i used but its a dead project not been updated since 2011

[sted]

right as im not exactly snowed under atm lol ive had a look at this (been meaning to do it for ages) and have found this Win10PE SE Web Page using basic default settings i have a bootable wim that goes straight to windows 10 desktop (it did throw up an error message but worked fine and networked ok not much there but its a start and as its a wim file as long as your diag software is just exe just mount the wim file copy the files to the desktop and save changes and add to wds

[ChrisH]

You want something like this: WDSLINUX - Syslinux Wiki

 

I've been using it for a long time to select booting to the normal WDS options or various other boot disks. The method of adding the other boot disks varies though but you can usually find the documentation somewhere:

 

Sample:

 

LABEL dban
menu passwd menupassword

MENU LABEL DBAN
KERNEL DBAN.BZI
append floppy=0,16,cmos silent nuke="dwipe"

label GParted
menu passwd menupassword
           MENU LABEL GParted
           kernel \img\gparted\vmlinuz
           append initrd=\img\gparted\initrd.img boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt vga=788 fetch=http://192.168.10.23/pxe/gparted/filesystem.squashfs
  
LABEL Clonezilla
menu passwd menupassword
MENU LABEL ^Clonezilla
kernel \img\clonezilla\vmlinuz
append initrd=\img\clonezilla\initrd.img boot=live live-config noswap nolocales edd=on nomodeset ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap="" ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" vga=788 nosplash fetch=http://192.168.10.23/pxe/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs

LABEL -
menu passwd menupassword
MENU LABEL Ultimate Boot CD
COM32 /boot/syslinux/menu.c32
APPEND /ubcd/menus/syslinux/ubcd.menu

Edited March 30, 2016 by ChrisH

[Duke5A]

I used to use PXELinux on a WDS server to. When I went to 2012R2 though I never set it back up because I don't know how it plays with devices that require UEFI booting. From what I can remember you need to change the boot application in WDS at the command line using 'WDSUTIL.' Used to be able to do this in the console, but MS removed that functionality in either 2008 or 2008R2. Edited March 31, 2016 by Duke5A