The end goal of all this engineering effort is to
load Windows operating system images to bare metal or existing PCs with minimal effort.
If you try PXE booting one of your test machines to load your newly created Install
image, you will probably be wondering why the boot menu still shows only your boot
and Capture boot images in the PXE boot menu, even though you??™ve clearly created and
added an Install image to WDS.
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If you read through this chapter, you should know that there are only three different
types of boot images:
?–? The regular boot image that is taken from OS installation media (boot.wim)
?– Capture boot images created from regular boot images
?–? Discover boot images that are also created from regular boot images
Notice how I never said to create an Install boot image. There is no such thing as an Install
boot image, since they are actually called Install images. The lack of the word boot in
Install images is intentional, since Install images are not bootable. You will actually need
to boot using either a regular boot image using PXE or a Discover boot image, and then
selecting the appropriate Install image to load when prompted.
Hands-On Exercise: Installing Windows Server 2008
Using WDS and PXE Boot
1. Boot the server onto which you??™d like to load Windows Server 2008 using PXE
(press f12 when prompted).
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