Windows XPe deployment on a thin client

AWhackWhiteBoy

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So I recently got my hands on a free HP t5700 thin client and wish to turn it into a car PC. I've done my homework and labored long and hard to figure out the ropes to compiling my own Windows XPe image for this device and I think I have it all together aside from one thing...

I can't figure out how to flash the new image onto the client!

I've exhausted everything in terms of google searches and I can't find any easy way to do this. Pretty much my only option for doing this is with a USB thumb drive, as the client has no CD-Rom or floppy connectors and for whatever reason refuses to pull an IP address from my router.

I have the HP Thin Client Imaging Tool (which flashes a thumb drive and makes it bootable) to load the stock HP OS however it uses a rather obscure .img format and I have no idea how to create one of my own.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.
 

Allanv

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Originally posted by: AWhackWhiteBoy
So I recently got my hands on a free HP t5700 thin client and wish to turn it into a car PC. I've done my homework and labored long and hard to figure out the ropes to compiling my own Windows XPe image for this device and I think I have it all together aside from one thing...

I can't figure out how to flash the new image onto the client!

I've exhausted everything in terms of google searches and I can't find any easy way to do this. Pretty much my only option for doing this is with a USB thumb drive, as the client has no CD-Rom or floppy connectors and for whatever reason refuses to pull an IP address from my router.

I have the HP Thin Client Imaging Tool (which flashes a thumb drive and makes it bootable) to load the stock HP OS however it uses a rather obscure .img format and I have no idea how to create one of my own.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

First it isn't going to pick up your router. Search PXE boot so unless your router can be configured to tell the thin client where the tftp server is and the name of the boot file and 1 other option that escapes me.
It wont boot

read this

http://www.altiris.com/Product...ion/hpthinclients.aspx

get this and play

http://www.altiris.com/download.aspx?product=510