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Boot DOS with WDS? - 8/15/2008 11:26:14 AM

jmansson

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Hi,

I have a WDS to PXE-boot a WinPE-based ZeroTouchInstallation.

Now do I want to add some other "custom tools" to the PXE-boot, like running format c:, BIOS-upgrade tools and so on.
Is it possible to make a WIM-file with just booting MS-DOS?
Or can i make a ISO with just MS-DOS and boot that?
Can i maybe use a slimmed WinPE (to reduce boot-time) that just runs the commands that I want?
I have read that I can make a floppy image, but that it is limited to a size of 2.88Mb. Is that correct? Some of the tools needs files bigger than that.

The WDS is running in mixed-mode.

/Jonas

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RE: Boot DOS with WDS? - 8/15/2008 3:58:05 PM

jsandys

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Check out www.bootdisk.com and www.allbootdisks.com.

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RE: Boot DOS with WDS? - 8/18/2008 3:53:08 AM

jmansson

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Thanks for your quick reply.

I did check out the pages and found some images with MS-DOS. I did download a MS-DOS 6.22 ISO image and did try to add it to the WDS. It did show up in the OSChooser-meny, but it failed to launch.
Do you also have any information about how to add it to the WDS? Do I need more files in the templates-folder when i boot MS-DOS instead of WinPE?
I did not found anywhere on the two pages saying anytning about the WDS, but maybe I was looking at the wrong page?

/Jonas

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