pxe bootable usb network card

[sted]

Ive found the old heads surface pro in a cupboard here and want to rebuild it anyone know of a decent preferably cheap pxe compatible usb nic i can use with it? ideally if its something i can get from https://www.cclonline.com/ as its close (or amazon as i can just prime it) even better. The usb nic i have dosent support pxe

[Oaktech]

do you have wds or sccm?

 

If you do you can follow the instructions here: Windows Deployment Services: How to create a bootable deployment ISO » Eversity

[sted]

do you have wds or sccm?

 

If you do you can follow the instructions here: Windows Deployment Services: How to create a bootable deployment ISO » Eversity

 

yed to wds no to sccm but if i use a bootable cd/pendrive i cant use a network adapter to pull the files down from mdt only have 1 usb port

[Oaktech]

yed to wds no to sccm but if i use a bootable cd/pendrive i cant use a network adapter to pull the files down from mdt only have 1 usb port

 

Usb hub... WDS is fine. plug the hub into the surface, the usb boot drive and the adapter into the hub, maybe a usb keyboard and mouse (the tablets I use this with don't have touch enabled during build) boot the machine off the usb stick you made, it installs the net adapter because it either knows what to do with it, or you injected the driver into the discover image, it knows where the WDS server is because the discover image tells it, goes off looking for it, it's as if you PXEd.

[TRC_MA]

Haven't tried it myself but I'm wondering if you could copy a WinPE environment file to the local disk and boot from that? Some work might be necessary to add drivers for the network card etc. It has been a while since I last looked at this sort of thing.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771845(v=ws.10).aspx

[Arthur]

anyone know of a decent preferably cheap pxe compatible usb nic I can use with it?

Pluggable make USB NICs that can PXE boot and are available to buy from Amazon.

 

Supporting PXE over USB Deployment Scenarios for tablets and ultrabooks - Plugable

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00484IEJS

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003VSTDFG