How do I install XP over LAN?

Hi,

I need to re-install XP Home on a laptop, but the CD drive is broken and
there is no floppy drive. I also cannot boot from USB.

The laptop's BIOS supports booting from LAN and has a PXE enabled network
card. My desktop system has a Netgear router which uses DHCP and I have TFTP
server software. It seems like I'm all set, but my question is I don't know
which files I need to copy from the XP Home CD - do I just copy the entire CD
into the TFTP server root? If so, when I boot from LAN will the installation
operate in the same way as if I were running the installation from a CD?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Jay73 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to re-install XP Home on a laptop, but the CD drive is broken and
> there is no floppy drive. I also cannot boot from USB.
>
> The laptop's BIOS supports booting from LAN and has a PXE enabled network
> card. My desktop system has a Netgear router which uses DHCP and I have TFTP
> server software. It seems like I'm all set, but my question is I don't know
> which files I need to copy from the XP Home CD - do I just copy the entire CD
> into the TFTP server root? If so, when I boot from LAN will the installation
> operate in the same way as if I were running the installation from a CD?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.

You need to have an active RIS server on the network. It is impractical
to set this up in a home environment. You need to fix the CD drive.

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Malke
--
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

If you have XP running in some form, just copy over the contents of
the XP setup disk and then run the I386\WINNT32.EXE file

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Jeffrey Randow
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:44:00 -0800, Jay73
<Jay73@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to re-install XP Home on a laptop, but the CD drive is broken and
>there is no floppy drive. I also cannot boot from USB.
>
>The laptop's BIOS supports booting from LAN and has a PXE enabled network
>card. My desktop system has a Netgear router which uses DHCP and I have TFTP
>server software. It seems like I'm all set, but my question is I don't know
>which files I need to copy from the XP Home CD - do I just copy the entire CD
>into the TFTP server root? If so, when I boot from LAN will the installation
>operate in the same way as if I were running the installation from a CD?
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice.
>