Preparing and Installing Windows XP Embedded Images – Part III: Using Remote Boot
After what we’ve seen on the previous posts: Setting up the environment (Part I) and building an Windows XP Embedded Image (Part II) we can complete the remote boot process with diskless devices with this last part. There are special hardware requirements for this procedure and could get a little tricky. In the computer you are using to prepare the image (the server), you need an additional hard disk (or virtual disk) which you will use to boot the image from. To prepare the image for remote booting: 1. Add a second drive to the machine that act as server. Format the volume and set it like an “Active” partition. 2. Copy all of the files that were created on the Windows Embedded Images subfolder you chose to a second disk (virtual disk if you are using virtual machines) Note: Since this disk will be used to boot an operating system image, remember that the partition within must be Active. Otherwise the operating system will not boot. 3. After copying all of the files to the second hard disk, move it to a client machine and boot that client using the disk. 4. After the image boots, you’ll see that several components are configured in the image, by a process named First Boot Agent. This process takes a few minutes to complete. If you are using the System Cloning Tool, then fbreseal is run in the first boot, as the […]