Network Install of Windows 2K

[silentkevin]

Does anyone know of a way to install win2k from across the network? Linux comes with a network boot disk you can use to access a shared iso or cd, just wondering if anyone knew of something similar for win2k. I'd like to install win2k on a computer without a cd drive, and am too lazy to move a drive from one of my other computers.

 

[TunaBoo]

Does it havbe a floppy?

You can use norton ghost 2001 to send an image over the network (boot off a floppy and use image cast). I have a 800 meg win2k image I use when building computets with win2k. It has some generic network drivers, so once it is done installing, I install the network driver, and get everything else off the net.

 

[Tripleshot]

Are you installing Pro or server? You can do it,but you need to set it up properly on a server. There should be some documentation on remote install from the W2K site.

 

[MulLa]

You can do that through an RIS server. But that requires AD, DHCP installed and require you to have a PXE 99c+ (I think) complient NIC or a special boot floppy for a bunch of NICs that arn't PXE complient.

You can just boot from the NIC it will connect to the DHCP / RIS server and install the image of w2k pro (only pro are supported) from the network.

There should be more detailed info on the set procedure on the KB somewhere.