![]() First put Windows 7 32-bit DVD Image ISO on your machine DVD drive, mount the image to /mnt path and copy all DVD mounted content to samba shared directory /windows/x32/. Now it’s time to copy Windows Installation Sources to the paths created above. To separate Windows installation sources architectures. But before mounting and copy DVD content create two directories under /windows path For this step both Windows 7 ISO DVD Images are needed. # semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t ‘/windows(/.*)?’Īdd Samba Selinux Rules Step 2: Deploy Windows 7 Installation Sources on PXE ServerĦ. Order to be fully accessed in case your system has enforced SELinux security. On the next step create the /windows directory under root path (the directory defined in samba conf file) and add SELinux contextual rules in After finishing editing main samba configuration file run testparm command in order to check and validate the file for eventual errors or misconfigurations. # For multiple installations the same time - not lock kernelĪs you can see from this configuration file, I have created a shared folder named install which is located under /windows system path (on this path will copy Windows 7 DVD installation sources).Ĥ. Now add the following configurations to samba main file as presented in the below file excerpt. ![]() Next, backup samba main configuration file and create a new configuration file with your favourite text editor by running the following commands. # yum install samba samba-common samba-winbindĢ. Install Samba daemon by issuing the following command. On the first step, login to PXE Server with root account and setup a fully accessed Samba share, where Windows 7 DVD installation sources will be deployed. Step 1: Install and Setup Samba Share on PXE Serverġ. The next steps that should be made on the client-side in order to boot, access and install Windows 7 over network. This image will be then transferred to PXE Server machine via Samba shared directory and moved to TFTP server default location. The second part will be focused on building WinPE ISO image ( Windows Preinstallation Enironment) with the help of Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed on a Windows 7 computer premises. The first part will cover the configurations needed to setup the environment on RHEL/CentOS 7 PXE Server premises, by installing and configuring a Samba fully accessed shared directory with no authentication needed, where both Windows 7 system architecture images will be deployed, and, also, editing PXE Server default configuration file with the options needed to boot WinPE ISO Image in order to manually proceed with Windows installation process. Both Windows 7 32-bit/64-bit DVD ISO Images.īefore proceeding with the installation process, I will explain how this guide is structured.Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed on Windows 7 computer.A computer with Windows 7 operating system installed.A Samba fully accessed directory share setup on PXE Server machine.Install PXE Network Boot Server for Multiple OS Installations in RHEL/CentOS 7.This tutorial will be concentrate around Windows based systems and will show you how to add and manually install Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, over a PXE Server and Samba shares. ![]() Continuing the series of tutorials regarding RHEL/ CentOS 7 PXE Network Boot Server Environment, where so far I have only discussed integrating and installing Linux distributions over PXE Server.
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