1.0Jui-Nan Lin's Bloghttps://jnlin.orgjnlinhttps://jnlin.org/author/jnlin/1. Install tftp-hpa (/usr/ports/ftp/tftp-hpa) Install samba3, perl, python 2. Set pxeboot environment Ref: <a href=" http://jnlin.org/2006/10/29/141/"> http://jnlin.org/2006/10/29/141/</a> 3. Change tftpd server to tftp-hpa /usr/local/libexec/in.tftpd in.tftpd -v -m /tftpboot/rules -s /tftpboot 4. Write rules (Warning! If you apply my rule, all filenames in tftproot must be lowercase) # cat > /tftpboot/rules ri ^[a-z]: # Remove "drive letters" rg \\ / # Convert backslashes to slashes rg \# @ # Convert hash marks to @ signs rg /../ /..no../ # Convert /../ to /..no../ rg A a rg B b rg C c rg D d rg E e rg F f rg G g rg H h rg I i rg J j rg K k rg L l rg M m rg N n rg O o rg P p rg Q q rg R r rg S s rg T t rg U u rg V v rg W w rg X x rg Y y rg Z z r ^/(.*) \1 5. extract I386 files from Windows XP installation CD (Ref: <a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php">http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php</a>) - Copy i386 directory from the installation media to a subdir called winxp in the ris working directory - Extract the pxe loader: cabextract <source dir>/i386/STARTROM.N1_ - Modify the name of the loader from NTLDR to XPLDR: sed -i -e 's/NTLDR/XPLDR/gi' startrom.n12 - Move the modified pxe loader to tftpd root, and call it winxp.0 - Extract the setuploader, using cabextract: cabextract </source><source dir>/i386/SETUPLDR.EX_ - Modify the name of the response file from winnt.sif to winxp.sif sed -i -e 's/winnt\.sif/winxp\.sif/gi' setupldr.exe - Modify the name of ntdetect from ntdetect.com to ntdetect.wxp sed -i -e 's/ntdetect\.com/ntdetect\.wxp/gi' setupldr.exe - Move the modified setuploader to tftpd root, and call it xpldr - Copy </source><source dir>/i386/NTDETECT.COM to tftpd root and call it ntdetect.wxp 6. Create winxp.sif (Ref: <a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php">http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php</a>) == [data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" ; Needed for second stage OriSrc = "\\YOUR_SERVER_NAME\YOUR_SHARE_NAME\winxp\i386" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1 [SetupData] OsLoadOptions = "/fastdetect" ; Needed for first stage SetupSourceDevice = "\Device\LanmanRedirector\YOUR_SERVER_NAME\YOUR_SERVER_SHARE\winxp" [UserData] ComputerName = * ; if needed ;ProductID= == *** Remember to set the share folder in the samba server *** Ref: <a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php">http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php</a> [REMINST] path = /mnt/disk/ris browsable = true read only = No guest ok = Yes 7. Install NIC drivers to i386/inf cp nicdrivers/* i386/inf ln i386/inf/* i386/* 8. Rename all files in winxp to lowercase <pre> find ./ -depth \ | perl -ne 'chomp;m</[^/]*$>;$d=$`;$_=$f=$&;'\ 's/([\x80-\xFF].)|(\w)/$1\l$2/g;system "echo",$d.$f,$d.$_ if $f ne $_' </pre> 9. Get Binl Server and extract it fetch http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux-0.2.tar.gz tar zxf http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux-0.2.tar.gz cd ris-linux-0.2 10. Run infparser.py ./infparser.py /where/is/winxp/i386/inf 11. Run ./binlsrv.py 12. Go to install Windows XP :) ** Useful Ref ** <a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php">http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php</a> <a href="http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php">http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/ris-linux.php</a> <a href="http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php">http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php</a></source>rich