Booting large ISO through PXE

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Published on 2012-05-31T10:00:08Z Indexed on 2012/05/31 10:43 UTC
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I currently have a FOG server (which works perfectly fine) and I'm trying to boot Windows 7 through it (with memdisk).

But, since the ISO is rather large (more than 6 GB) it will try to put the ISO into memory and then boot however it crashes with the error message not enough memory to load specified image. The systems here don't have 6 GB of RAM so I need another way to boot it. I am aware of WDS and SCCM, however I want todo this with FOG.

Is there any way to boot the ISO and install Windows through FOG?

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