Bittorrent based Windows XP / 7 Deployment

Deploy Windows XP / 7 unattended installations with the use of bittorrent within your coorporate network. This project provides you the necessary steps and tools to build sources from scratch. Based upon Ubuntu/Debian Linux.

Features

• Based upon Ubuntu / Debian
• Small network PXE boot images (~15MB)
• Bittorrent as a deploy mechanism
• Easy to adopt to your own needs
• Reduces the load on the deployment server
• Use your favorite Linux distribution for deployment

Overview

• Introduction
• Requirements

• mcinitrd

• Windows XP
  • FreeDOS boot-image
  • Windows XP answer file (unattend.txt)
  • PXE ramdisk image (setup)
  • Prepare installation sources
  • PXE ramdisk image
  • Final deployment

• Windows 7
  • Windows 7 answer file (unattend.xml)
  • Prepare installation sources
  • PXE ramdisk image
  • Final deployment

Links

• Project site: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/btwindeploy/wiki/
• SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btwindeploy/

Registered: 2010-06-25