# installing xp over lan?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by b3n (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Monday, 23-Oct-2006 10:55:29

Hi.

## Post 2 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Monday, 23-Oct-2006 11:22:21

I don't think so, Do you have a CD rom laying around that you could install where the floppy is. Just for the xp install?

## Post 3 by frequency (the music man) on Monday, 23-Oct-2006 16:04:40

This depends on if the bios of the computer without the CD-rom has the ability to boot from LAN (Local Area Network).
You won't be able to install XP from LAN unless you have a Windows 2000/2003 server with Remoite Installation Services (RIS) enabled. If you're not familiar with any other ways of deploying Windows XP besides CD installation, then your best bet is to get a USB CD-ROM and hope that the BIOS supports booting from USB. And if you don't have a Windows 2000/2003 server, then you're out of luck for RIS.
You could also try hooking the computer's HD up as a slave to another computer, formatting it, and copying the xp cd over to it. Then, put it back it the computer and see if that works.