If all goes well, you should see a screen similar to the one below that shows the computer’s MAC and network card requests to an IP address via DHCP. Select Network or PXE (again, this depends on the computer BIOS), to boot from the network, using Serva Select boot from LAN On most computers, press F12, F8 or del button depending on the BIOS version. Then start the computer and press the key to display the start menu. This setting can be called “Boot from the network” or “Boot from PXE”. Make sure that the network boot is enabled.
Go to the computer where you want to install Windows and enter the BIOS.
For example C:\Serva\WIA_WDS\Windows10\ Then we close the program and restart it as an administrator.
Then extract the content of the ISO and paste it into the folder. The “WIA_WDS” folder must be configured as shared and with the name of the shared resource “WIA_WDS_SHARE” Share “WIA_WDS” folder Advance SharingĬreate a folder inside “WIA_WDS” with the name of the operating system. WIA_WDS: From the view on (View, W7, W8, W10). WIA_RIS: Previous Windows insight (XP, Server 2008 non-R2).
NWA_PXE: Here we will put different Windows distributions (Linux, etc). At this point, several subfolders will be created within the root folder “OS”: select the “DHCP” tab, then select “proxyDHCP” and “BINL”Īfter that, close and restart the program (as administrator). select “settings”, then click on the “TFTP” tab, click on “TFTP server”, then select “TFTP server root directoryįinally, select the DHCP tab, then select the proxyDHCP and BINL options. After that, select TFTP server root directory and browse through the file directory to where the folder you previously created is located. In the first place, we have to select “settings”. Run “Serva64.exe” or “Serva32.exe”, and wait 7 seconds to click on I`m a “Community” user
Once the wait is over, click “Thanks, not today” and configure as follows (if a Windows Firewall warning appears, give access to the application). The free version will ask you to wait for 7 seconds before you can use it. Run “Serva64.exe” (or Serva32.exe) depending on the version of our Windows. Then, create inside an empty folder (for example OS) where the decompressed images of the operating systems will be located:Ĭ:\Serva\OS\ Create a folder named “Serva” and unzip the file downloaded Running the EXE file For ease of use, I recommend unzipping at the root of the hard drive. NOTE: No installation is necessary because it is portable.
We will need an original DVD of Windows 10 or an ISO.The main limitations of the free version are the following: For 50 minutes, it is limited to two clients per session and the operating system menu is reduced to 7. There is a free (Non-supporter) and a paid (Supporter) version. SERVA is a small PXE server for Windows that allows us to install an operating system over the local network, without the need for bootable DVDs or USBs. First of all, we are going to define what a PXE server is by its acronym Preboot eXecution Environment, it is an environment to boot and install the operating system on computers through a LAN network, independently of the available data storage devices (such as hard disks) or the operating systems installed. So now I offer you a tutorial based on SERVA, which is simple and easy to use the PXE server. Most of the tutorials available are complicated and are intended for medium/high users. In these cases, we can only try to do the installation through the local network. Sometimes, we need to install Windows 10 on a PC without a DVD drive or USB port.