installing win xp over lan from another winxp pc

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I have been given these old mini pc's and have been asked to reinstall their windows xp's
they don't have CD drives, and it doesn't seem to be booting from the USB CD.
plugging in a cd drive is a real hassle on these things and to do it for all the pc's is not worth it.

in the boot screen it says "Boot from LAN" so there is that option. unfortunately I don't have a server to load a windows from.
Is there a way to load the windows install from a PC on the LAN which has xp and have it act like a server?
 
Nope, well not without A RIS server or something.

The boot from LAN stuff is to connect to a PXE server and not to boot from a UNC path.

I suggest you find a CDROM drive ;)

Burnsy
 
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