Hi there, I'm trying to deploy Win XP Pro to a laptop with no cdrom drive or fdd. Toshiba, in all their wisdom, replaced my HD and handed it back blank and I can't be bothered taking it back. ...
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Hi there, I'm trying to deploy Win XP Pro to a laptop with no cdrom drive or fdd. Toshiba, in all their wisdom, replaced my HD and handed it back blank and I can't be bothered taking it back. Soooo.. I've not changed any default settings. I've set my windows server PC to have an IP of 10.0.0.10/255.0.0.0. I've logged into the web interface as admin. I've added my mount point, 10.0.0.10/winxp I've clicked mount, and it's successfully mounted I click on OS I click configure next to 'winxp' It comes up with share name 'winxp' The ISO drop down is always blank, but if I look at /var/public/smbmount/winxp on the console, sure enough the drive is mounted and the ISO, winxp.iso is clearly in there. I have full write permissions (verified by 'touch'). I think "stuff it", and mount the ISO by hand - mount -t iso9660 -o loop /var/public/smbmount/winxp/winxp.iso /var/public/tftproot/WINXP It successfully mounts. I save everything, and boot the laptop. It comes up with: For help press Current Templates: ID Description --------- + winxp Windows XP boot: I type in 'winxp' - get back "Could not find kernel image: winxp" I type in 'WINXP' - get back "Invalid or corrupt kernel image." I'm stuck. Any advice you can give me please? Is this because I manually mounted the ISO? Why can't it see the ISO listed? Any help you can give me is appreciated, I REALLY want to get this laptop working again.. Thanks -p