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Provide instructions on how to install Windows?

ametis70 opened this issue · 4 comments

I've used netboot.xyz to install or run linux distros on the past but now I'm struggling to install Windows 10. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong as I cannot find any useful information on the internet. Here is what I tried:

  1. Download Windows 10 iso from here, extract and serve files through http
  2. Launch netboot.xyz (using tftp)
  3. Select windows on the menu. It pulls the files successfully
  4. The installer starts, but as soon as I click on "Install now" to begin the installation I get this error:
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I also tried mounting the files on a samba share and accessing them within the installer, but I had no success (I'm not even sure if it isn't finding some file or what's causing the error to pop)

Thanks in advance

Some background info, are you using this on KVM, or physical machine?
If KVM, virtio storage device?

I used linuxserver.io docker image to boot netboot.xyz on a physical machine through TFTP. I was able to install arch linux and also booted up a live image of ubuntu without any problem

Do you have an SMB share with the Windows ISO files? Did you mount it before running the installer?

Yes, but I'm not sure if I missed an intermediate step, as I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to do this properly.
From what I remember, I opened a cmd.exe before clicking on the button to begin the installation and mounted the samba share. I could navigate to the share and the files were there, but I don't think the installer was looking for them in that place