WDS with Windows XP

[jaredj]

I have now been trying to get my WDS server to work with Windows XP images for a week. I have successfully added all of my boot images and injected the network card drivers for my HP desktops. The boot images work fine and I have been able to capture a Windows XP image and have it upload to my server. Now comes my problem, no matter what I do, I can't get the image to load on any of the other PCs. When I boot up and select the boot image, it boots into Windows PE and after a minute or two I get a networking error about not being able to obtain a network driver. My question is, do I need to inject the NIC driver into the Windows Image itself or only on the boot image? If I do need to do it on the Windows Image can you please provide me with some direction. I have exported the image and mounted it using imagex but can't inject a driver into it. I have also tried to do it through SIM which also doesn't seem to work.

 

Thank you very much for your help!

[jaredj]

I was actually able to solve my own problem... There was two images on the boot.wim file that I was using and when I was injecting the NIC drivers, I was only doing it to the first image.

 

Hopefully this will help someone else.