Portable Windows PXE Deployment Solution

[Guest Mancoast]

Hello all!

This is my first post here. I am finalizing a Deployment solution for small repair workshops.

The objective is to reduce effort required to install the Windows Operating System.

Final Result is a PXE boot menu with options for one button boot and nuke followed up with a fresh OS install.

Can select from XP, Vista, 7, 8 all x86 or x64.

Utilized code from tftp32... still working out details if I am allowed to release my code.

Creates a lightwieght portable tftp server and pxe dhcp proxy server along with SMB share.

Binary PXE image from syslinux package.No user input required passed OS selection, fully unattended partitioning and install.I

have finished XP support but I do not have access to official ISO for SHA1 security implementation.

University of Dayton dropped my Dreamspark account

Also for Historical sake I would like to add support for every Windows version down to 1.0.

So now I have some questions:

The following ISOs were used for testing:

Windows8-ConsumerPreview-64bit-English.iso

Windows8-ConsumerPreview-32bit-English.iso

X17-24208.iso

X17-24280.iso

X17-24394.iso

X17-24209.iso

X17-24281.iso

X17-24395.iso

en_windows_vista_sp2_x64_dvd_342267.iso

en_windows_vista_with_sp2_x86_dvd_342266.iso

Am I legally allowed to host these stock ISOs on my personal website?

Am I legally allowed to host these ISOs on my personal website after modification?

Am I legally allowed to host virtual machines based on these ISOs on my personal website? (obviously unactivated in trial version)

Am I legally allowed to host PE ISOs on my personal website?

Am I legally allowed to host VMWare virtual machines on my personal website?

Am I legally allowed to host virtual machines based on PE ISOs on my personal website?

The reason I am asking is because the Digital River and other links I have found might fade away.

If legal and permanent links can be established than the entire solution could be distributed in simply one batch script!

My email is mancoast@mancoast.org if anyone wants a preview of the code before its done.

 

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