[syslinux] Help for setting up windows unattended installation

[Locane]

Trust me when I say that setting up WDS and WSUS is a huge project.  At my
work, we had an intern working on it for two weeks and required installing
syslinux (I think) 4.7 on to our CentOS 7.4 server (it shipped with 4.5 or
something) before we could even chain-load to the secondary Windows PXE
server.

Setting up clonezilla to work right under Linux for Windows images is far,
far easier, and I have documentation on how to do that under CentOS I could
dig up and spend some time scrubbing since it's internal.  It's also not
complete - it wouldn't take you from 0 to imaging, but it might demistify
some quirks about the clonezilla options to pick when laying out images and
creating them.

I could also give you the email address of the guy who set up our windows
stuff if you're desperate enough to pay him like a contractor for answering
questions.  He's still in school right now.

On Nov 24, 2017 7:07 AM, "Geert Stappers via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 09:07:22AM -0500, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Kenneth Vandbæk wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have looked at
> > > PXElinux<http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX>
> > > to understand all this, but I'm very sorry I don't.
> > >
> > > I have managed to setup to boot from PXELinux, but I'm not an
> > > expert on how to setup a menu file for making a windows unattended
> > > installation.
> >
> > So you're at the point where PXELINUX successfully loads and you have
> > a config loading of some sort?  What's your config currently look
> > like?  Is this a BIOS/legacy system?
> >
> > Regarding an unattended install of Windows, how do you plan to do
> > this?  Do you want to chain-load to a WDS system?  Restore an image
> > with a tool like Clonezilla??  There's lots of options here without
> > knowing the details.
> >
> > > Could someone help me with that?
> > >
> > > Is there some kind of a forum for this or is it just by email?
> >
> > Web forum?  No.  IRC?  Yes, but unless you find someone active at the
> > time, you might have to wait for any sort of answer.
> >
>
> Karma bonus points for publishing / documenting install procedure.
>
>
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers
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