Just to clarify, the issue isn’t tool consolidation it is really just the number of USB drives. On a good day i can be working on 6 machines at the same time and i’m somewhat fed up with having to keep 6 identical USB drives updated.

@george1421 said in Problems booting a WinPE based rescuedisk iso over PXE:

I understand that MDT is out of scope for your project. But the link I provided with “booting mdt 2013 lite touch”. Really has nothing to do with MDT itself other than delivering a WinPE environment to the target computer (which MDT uses to start its environment). If you have a WinPE environment on an iso image, you can use either method to deliver that to your target computer over PXE. Your target will boot from that iso.

In that case i am somewhat confused since your tutorial specifically mentions starting out with an MDT server. What would be the best way to get an existing Win10PE iso with built in tools and such working? (assuming that is possible)

I understand. But being able to boot a rescuedisk over the network severely cuts down on my need for a half dozen USB drives
For context, we are talking small scale home repair use, not a school or business with hundreds of systems.

Regarding the MDT tutorial, MDT and sysprepping my own images is somewhat out of the scope of this project. The main goal right now is having PXE recoverable images for my own systems and being able to do a clean install over PXE. The Rescuedisk iso’s would mainly just be an added benefit.

Regarding the Windows installation, could i potentially use WinNTSetup to throw an installation on a disk and then image that to the server and use it as a clean installation?

Also, the wiki iso tutorial is somewhat unclear and highly specific in my opinion. I found this one to be much easier to follow, https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/4790/how-to-add-live-cd-iso-to-fog-1-2-on-ubuntu-12-04/29

Edit: i should note by the way that the Sergei Strelec Rescuedisk did manage to boot in to its live Windows on a different machine but most stuff didn’t work because of a file location fuck up in the way the iso gets mounted through PXE i think.

First off, hello! I’m new!

Now that that is out of the way.

Scenario:
Server:

• VM on a Unraid based server
• Ubuntu 14.04.4
• 512MB RAM
• 2 Cores assigned
• Gigabit LAN
• Fog_1.2.0 Stable

Client:

• HP EliteBook 2740p
• 8GB RAM
• 120GB SSD
• Gigabit LAN

Problem:
I’m trying to make WinPE 10 Sergei Strelec (x64) bootable over PXE and i can get the ISO’s menu to show but when i pick one of the options in the menu the screen just goes black and nothing happens. Any idea’s?

Problem2:
I have two other ISO’s, one Hirens iso and one other Win10PE based ISO. Both when trying to boot them give: “could not boot no space left on device”.

Problem3:
The same happens when trying to boot a regular Windows 10 installation ISO.

My advanced menu config,
http://pastebin.com/eNJnke3m