PXE server on Windows and cloning disks

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Hello,

This is sort of a two part question.

First, I want to run a PXE boot server on my PC (PC A) that has Windows 7 installed. What I would like to do is mount a ISO on PC A, have another PC boot to PC A and install OSs What or how do I do this?

Second, after doing this, I want to make a image so that I clone it to different HDDs and have a backup. Does the hardware changes from PC to PC matter dramatically. For example (example out of the air): 2010 motherboard with SATA1 drive a AMD processor with AMD video card is cloned to a 2013 motherboard with SATA3 drive a Intel processor and a nVidia video card.

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Grand Master

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Hello,

  On 20/11/2013 at 13:13, sc302 said:

You need to pxe boot. Windows server has the capability and so do imaging suites like acronis. You can create your own pxe environment but will need a bit more than Windows pcs.

So I install Acronis Snap Deploy 4 on my Windows 7 machine and everyone can boot from it using its IP?
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Hello,

  On 20/11/2013 at 14:09, sc302 said:
Serva logs tell me this:

(MAC made up)

[11/20 15:30:49.676] PDHCP Err: >> Too many clients; "Supporter" license required. Ignoring MAC Dell/11:11:11:11:11:11 request

Repeated. Only one client is trying to boot using PXE.

 

  On 20/11/2013 at 14:14, sc302 said:

and also http://www.ccboot.com/pxe-boot-windows.htm

I am sure there are more if you Google a bit.

Will look at and try that now.

Looked over it and setup looks a bit more time consuming.

Thanks.

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