Dell Intel PRO Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 16)

WDS Installation of Windows Server 2008 and Server 2012
Microsoft provides WDS, Windows Deployment Services, for acquiring an installation image remotely. One network adapter is
assigned for PXE Option ROM in order to pull the install image, and another adapter to iSCSI Option ROM for Windows Server
2008 or Server 2012 installation destination. You may need to prepare a custom boot image based on the MS TechNet article
Windows Deployment Services.
Setting up WDS
1. Prepare the WDS environment and the custom boot image based on the MS TechNet article.
2. Inject the network driver and INF from the appropriate directory to the custom boot image. To determine which
directory to copy the files from, see Determining the Windows Drivers Directory for Installing Windows Server 2008 .
NOTE: Windows Server* 2012 R2 uses NDIS 6.4, Windows Server 2012 uses NDIS 6.3, Windows Server 2008 R2 uses
NDIS 6.2, and Windows Server 2008 SP1 or SP2 uses NDIS 6.1.
Setting Up the System
1. Install an adapter flashed with Intel® Boot Agent, or configure the LOM in your system to enable PXE.
2. Install an adapter flashed with the iSCSI Option ROM.
3. Boot the system.
4. Enter the BIOS setup menu and set the PXE adapter as the primary boot device.
5. Reboot the system.
6. Enter the iSCSI Setup screen via CTRL-D, and enable the primary port. Enable the Secondary port if required by your
configuration. Enter any static settings if you are not using DHCP. For more information on options in the iSCSI Setup
screen click here .
NOTE: If you want to strictly use DHCP, you will need to enable Option 60 for PXE, as well as options 12 and
option 17 for iSCSI in the DHCP server.
7. Reboot the machine.
8. Ensure that the iSCSI Option ROM connects to the iSCSI LUN, and the PXE Option ROM connects to the WDS server.
Performing an Installation
1. Boot the system via PXE to your WDS Server, ensuring that the iSCSI Option ROM has made a connection to your
target.
2. Choose the Windows Server 2008 or Server 2012 boot image you modified with the network drivers.
3. Select an iSCSI LUN on the “Where do you want to install Windows?” screen. Continue to complete the OS Installation.
If no iSCSI LUN is listed on the “Where do you want to install Windows?” screen:
A. Inject the other INF discussed in Step 2 of the Setting UP WDS section above into your custom boot image on
your WDS server. Reboot, and attempt the install again.
OR
B. Manually load the network drivers:
i. Using the "setup -a" command, extract the drivers from the Dell Driver Update Package. If an iSCSI LUN is
listed from step three, above, continue to complete the OS installation.
ii. On another system, create the WINPE INF driver directory on a removable media.
1. Create a temporary directory (for example, F:\temp\winpe on the USB media).
2. Copy all files from the PROXGB\Win32\NDISxx (or PROXGB\Winx64\NDISxx) directory to the
temporary directory. NDISxx indicates the NDIS version. Do NOT copy the INF files from NDISxx
directory to the temporary directory.
3. Extract the .INF files from PROXGB\Win32\NDISxx\WinPE\*.zip to the temporary directory.
iii. Reboot, and follow the above instructions until you get to the "Where do you want to install Windows?"
iv. Press Shift+F10 to bring up the Windows PE command line and connect the removal media to the system.
v. Enter "drvload <path>" where <path> is the location of the temporary directory you created in Step A,
above.
vi. Press "Refresh" on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" screen.
vii. The iSCSI LUN will be listed after the refresh completes. Continue to complete the install.