[ipxe-devel] Win 2008r2 - sanboot image and install to iSCSI

[Oliver Rath]

Hi Marek,

Am 01.08.2012 09:47, schrieb Marek Salwerowicz:
> Hi!
>
> W dniu 2012-08-01 09:14, Oliver Rath pisze:
>>
>> You will need a WinPE4 for installing win8 completely diskless. This
>> will fit into RAM (~330MB), so you can offer the iSCSI-C: drive via 0x80
>> and the win8-iso as 0x81.
>
> And how about Win2008R2 ? As far as I know, the installer is based on
> WinPE3.
Ok, for this you can take winpe3. This is smaller (~140MB), but boots
slower. Additionally you have to inject iscsi-funcionality, which isnt
on winpe3 by default. At WinPE4 there is iscsi and powershell built in
by default. Btw, winpe4 is able to install win7/2008r2, too.

>
> So should I do the following:
>
> 1. sanhook --drive 0x80
> iscsi:192.168.65.135::::iqn.2012-06.freenas.local:win2k8disk
> 2. sanhook --drive 0x81 http://ip/w2k8.iso #the complete, 3GB image of
> Windows 2008R2
> 3. initrd http://ip/winpe3.iso #the WinPE 3 iso image
> 4. chain ../memdisk iso raw
>
> ?

Yep. Dont forget to include iscsi in your winpe3! Maybe you can get a
problem with the dvd-filesystem. I wasnt able to use a winxp-cd as
iscsi-disk directly because of the lack of iso9660-support of my
winpe-iscsi-driver, but maybe you have more luck with win8-dvd.
Otherwise you can try bulding a virtual ntfs device and put the win8-dvd
files onto it.

Be sure that the c: drive exists and the dvd-drive is _after_ your
existing dvd-drive (if there exists one).

Good luck!

Oliver


Regards,
Oliver