Deployment Solution for Network Devices

Just a quick heads-up in case this affects anyone else besides me.

I have a scripted deployment for Windows 2000 servers. It operates doing a PXE boot in DOS mode, copies the install files from the depot and runs the install.

All worked well, until I moved the depot to a 64-bit Windows machine. It turns out, the DOS mode network client doesn't seem to play nicely with 64 bit Windows.

DriverCollect can be used to collect driver files from production computers as well as organize drivers you download.

This guide will take you through all the steps required to change the Deployment Server 6.8 PXE Menu to exactly how you want it.

Frequent contributor CondorMan shows us how to roll up our sleeves and tweak the PXE menu color to something that'll fit the corporate color scheme (or something that will shock your user's socks off). Check it out. (Written for Deployment Server 6.8.206)

This BStrap.0 will change your Deployment Server 6.9.206 PXE Menu's background color to black and text color to grey to match the system boot process.