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Mike,

The appliance is mostly standard software (tftpd, httpd, nfs server, samba server, dhcp server).

For (pre-vista) windows deployment you need a binl service, which has been implemented as a python script (see http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php ). There's also a script there that can build a binl service database from network driver inf/sys files. This is to get your network supported during ris installation. Linux and Solaris just carry lots of network drivers around in an installation.

The only thing I've done is bring it all toghether and tweak some stuff. Finding out how the various remote installations works takes most of the time while building. And of course debugging windows installation that require special network or mass storage drivers is quite a lot of work.

To be short: implementing a standalone version would require to make some changes and/or rebuild tftpd and (maybe even) dhcp. The rest should stay clean and standard I guess...

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