[python-win32] Setting a netboot within windows OS

[Vernon Cole]

Gowtham:
   I waited before giving this answer, to let the real Windows Gurus answer
first.  Tims pronouncement is as good is it gets, so here is my hair-brained
idea.  Perhaps it would actually work.

As much as I hate to admit this on a Windows mailing list ...
When I have multi-boot things to accomplish, I install a copy of Linux and
use GRUB to do the fancy boot stuff.

If you want to modify the boot control file from Windows, try:
  1) Install Ubuntu in a small (10MB) dedicated partition. (The Ubuntu
installer will modify the partition table for you, slide the NTFS as needed
and install GRUB for multi-boot.)
     Use the manual partitioning option to make sure you are using an ext3
(not ext4) file system for '/'.
  2) Download and install on your Windows system the ext2 file system
package from sourceforge.
  3) Mount your '/' partition, go to /boot/grub
  4) make a handy Python script to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg to do the boot
you need.
--
Vernon

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Gowtham <narisipalli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to try something similar to what Mac has i.e control the startup
> from the OS. In Mac you can choose to have the next boot to be a network
> boot or a CD boot or a Firewire boot. Similarly, is there a way in windows
> using WMI/wbem scripting we can set the next boot in network boot or CD mode
> instead of local hard disk.
>
> Any pointers, appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Gowtham N
>
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