Hi everyone!

I'm running the school computing labs as an administrator with plenty PCs, like 7 different ghost images
and multicasting, but we're receiving new equipment monthly, and hardware specs can't still the same... all OEM PCs

I'm using a 40 GB HDD as a troubleshooting disk, booting grub4dos and a little set of tools and utilities.
ATM, I'm running:

A full copy of M$-DOS 7
Memtest x86+
Seatools
Datalifeguard tools
BartPE (from RAMDISK)

I would like to add Windows XP and Vista installation to my menu entries, and get BartPE to be run from HDD from
the same menu.


All those 3 require a full USB device for themselves from what I've seen in many tutorials....


Is there a way to do this???
The only idea I have is setting a directory as root, and then some chainloading like
map (hd0)/XP_SP3
chainloader /[dont_kno_what_to_load_but_lets_say_bootsect.bin]

or
root (hd0,0)/XP_SP3
chainloader /[dont_kno_what_to_load_but_lets_say_bootsect.bin]

and the same for vista, manage them from a different folder.



I'm gonna try it but any help will be highly appreciated.

You seem like having read the wrong tutorials (or lied when saying that you have read them )

All you want to do is part of the features of the methods here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157

Since the most tricky part is installing XP from a USB stick, as it has a few requirements that at the moment are not negotiable, that is the "base" to start with.

This should be the easiest one:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444

This the one with more possibilities to be customized while still automated or semi-automated:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=111406

And this the one more "freestyle", you boot from a PE, then you do everything from it:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121446

jaclaz

Thanks!

I'm going for the Freestyle PE installation of XP. and with vista will be easier, can be chainloaded from a folder directly by grub4dos.

BartPE will continue in Ramdisk.



Thanks a lot