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====== Booting Windows XP SP2 over SMB ======
Windows XP SP2's RIS support allows for it to boot entirely over SMB.

===== Setup the Share =====

===== Copy a Windows XP SP2 Installation =====
Install a fresh Windows XP SP2 installation on the target computer (perhaps a VM).  For best results, make it a pretty vanilla (plain) install by choosing default options as much as possible.

Make sure to install the NIC.  This will populate **C:\Windows\Inf\** with the ***.INF** file (perhaps as **OEM*.INF**) as well as copy the ***.SYS** driver into **C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\**.  Once installed, use Device Manager and __un-install__ the NIC.  Be careful of the NIC re-installing on reboots.  You want to make sure it is un-installed before copying this Windows installation into the SMB share.

===== Modify the Directory Structure =====

Trace: • the_kernel_2 • autobootchainurl • authmenus • elf-ebi-initramfs-lnxi-howto • gdbstub

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