9 Diskless Boot Win XP Client

　　On CCBoot server, double click PC101 (Figure 10-1) to open the master PC’s properties dialog box, uncheck "Enable Upload Image"and click "Save".

　　Remove the HDD from the master PC, set it firstly boot from LAN (or network, PXE rom, or some similar settings) in BIOS settings so that it will start diskless boot (Figure 1).

　　Figure 1

　　The first time diskless booting the master PC, you can modify its computer name (Figure 2).

　　Figure 2

　　Set the computer name as you wish then press enter key to boot it (Figure 3).

　　Figure 3

　　Note: the first time you diskless boot Windows 7, you will get a startup list just like has not shut down computer normally. That’s just because we uploaded the Windows 7 image during it’s running. Bellow is how to prevent from this situation for future booting.

　　1). Boot one client diskless with enable "Keep Write-back".

　　2). Select "Start Windows 7 Normally" to boot.

　　3). When this client boot OK, shut it down. On the CCBoot server, press "Save to Image" in this client's properties.

　　Now, clients can boot Windows 7 from this image normally.

　　Additional Instruction

　　If the image you have uploaded from the master PC can be used to iSCSI boot Windows XP for all the other client PCs, please install other drivers (display, sound etc), Windows updates, and various application level software’s to the image by update image.

　　If you want to iSCSI boot Windows XP with a single image for client computers with different hardware specifications, you need to implement PnP, please refer to this article for more details - how to create a single image for all specifications.

　　A word of caution

　　While the CCBoot iSCSI Base Diskless Boot Server is servicing diskless clients, rebooting the Diskless target server will cause unexpected behavior for the diskless clients. This is similar to removing the local hard drive while the machine is running.