Originally Posted By: peter
Booting Linux from a LAN is not a job for the faint-hearted; I can only imagine Windows is worse.


Unusually, these days, it's not. The Windows Vista variant of Windows PE will happily boot from the network with minimal jiggery-pokery. It's fairly easy if you have a Linux host, and it's even easier if you have a Windows 2003 or 2008 server with Windows Deployment Services installed.

Once you've got it network booted into Windows PE, you can lay down a pre-install image of pretty much any version of Windows, and off you go.

It's fairly well-documented on TechNet.
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