The brief install instructions for PIXIL Configuration Server running on Windows 2003 (available here) require some adjustment for Windows 2003 Server systems using Service Pack 2.

First, “Remote Installation Services” referred to in the above document is now named “Windows Deployment Services.” That Windows component must be added in step 1, along with the DHCP server included in Networking Services.

Second, you must initialize Windows Deployment Services. This must be done after the client files are copied into C:\pixilboot. Open a command prompt and execute this command:

wdsutil /initialize-server /reminst:”C:\pixilboot”

Once these two steps have been taken, your PXE clients will boot PIXIL Thin Client correctly from the server. However, custom configurations will not load. This is due to a difference between the DHCP server available in Windows 2003 Server, and similar features in UNIX and Linux. To bypass the problem, add <server>-confighost to the append line of the configuration file in C:\pixilboot\pxelinux.cfg. For example, if your server’s IP address is 192.168.1.1, and your client’s configuration files are in C:\pixilboot\PXEclient, the append line might read:

append ramdisk_size=158000 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/pixil-initrd.gz init=/linuxrc rw vga=0x314 192.168.1.1-confighost PXEclient-config

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