boot iso XP legacy
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@george1421 in fact, i said nonsense, my iso is much less than 2gb. What is WFWG? thank you !
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@bluedark Now I’m just guessing, but it may be that winpe is the problem since it is a 32 bit application, and XP is looking for a 16 bit dos environment to install. Boy this is stretching way back. WFWG / LAN Manager boot disk (that can also be dispatched via FOG).
Or see what you can hack out of the iso image to get it below 2GB.
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@george1421 yes it’s already what I use and it works until Vista. But for XP, when I run the setup from winPE (32bit), the first line “install Windows XP” is greyed out and I don’t understand why.
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The idea I’m thinking of is based on this post: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/103323
It shows you how to copy the image to a FOG server (a windows server will work here too). If you use the FOG server you will need to install and configure SAMBA because winpe only speaks CIFS. ref: https://forums.fogproject.org/post/103318
The instructions show you how to build the winpe boot image using windows WAIK.
And finally it shows you how to create the menu entry for memdisk. Since this winpe boot image is about 300MB there is no problem using memdisk to launch winpe which then connects to the network CIFS file share and run the windows setup program.
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@bluedark Understand XP is so 2002, but you might be able to use a process that I worked out for netbooting windows 7. That is what you are booting is a winPE image that connects to a windows file share that has the installer files (the content of your iso image) on and run setup from there.
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@george1421 Oh ok. Indeed, the iso is more than 2GB. So, how to do?
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While we don’t mind helping people out, this is a forum for FOG, not for iPXE. While we use iPXE in our application, we do not have all the answers for it.
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@bluedark memdisk is a 32 bit application the maximum size of the iso image is 2GB in size. What size is the iso image you are trying to boot? With a target computer there is enough ram to run this iso image as long as it fits into a 32bit address space.
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i don’t use fog, i use ipxe.
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How much ram is in this computer vs the size of the iso image. Using memdisk it transfers the entire content of the iso image into memory and then executes the iso image in memory. I’d have to dig out my old copies of XP to see how big the iso image is. But this could be your first limitation.
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How much memory is available on this old Windows XP’s machine?
What version of FOG are you using?
Of note, RAM disk size was updated in 1.5 to use 275000 kilobytes, or about 270 MB minimum. I am guessing this machine has around 256 or less memory?
