Totally lost, 10 hours trying to fix this and no luck

have been trying to figure it out for over 10 hours and no luck, i have a new notebook i bought and it has no cd/dvd drive, i also don't have a usb hdd or dvd.

i was trying to install vista using pxe (my notebook supports it), i was able to load win pe via network and i was able to get to the command prompt window. here i tried to ping to the server pc and it returns error code 1231, seems no connection but cable is connected.

i used tftpd32 to boot win pe.

i have no clue as of what to do

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722015.aspx

Look at the chapter in deployment, see if it helps

cheers ...

 

do you have remote installation service and windows deployment service running on the server?

 

Here's the step by step I think qhn was aiming for

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721929.aspx

 

still, this assumes you have a cd drive to load the win pe package you have created, how do i load the win pe package using pxe?

i already tried loading a win pe package built from a user on the web but i would like to add it additional drivers for the lan support which might be the problem of not having the ip.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771670.aspx

wrong link....sorry.

 

do you have a 4gb flash drive?