Installing a clean Windows Server 2003 on a headless (no video out) system is not a simple task.\u00a0 I would not recommend attempting this without having either a lot of experience with OS deployment or a lot of patience and desire to learn.<\/p>\n
There are generally two ways to do this on the EX47x series: one is to hook into the network boot loader used for recovery mode and push down an image, and the other is to use a pre-configured hard drive.\u00a0 With either method you must have an installation of the OS pre-configured.\u00a0 The most straight forward method is to take a hard drive to another system and install Windows Server 2003, then use Sysprep to prepare for an unattended installation.<\/p>\n
I attempted to write a guide here<\/a>;\u00a0<\/strong>just remember this is not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/strong>\u00a0All credit goes to MediaSmartGuy\u00a0whom I copied and modified these instructions<\/strong><\/a> from (and which are tested and known to work flawlessly — Thank you!)<\/p>\n If you just want the driver pack I’ve put together get it here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Installing a clean Windows Server 2003 on a headless (no video out) system is not a simple task.\u00a0 I would not recommend attempting this without having either a lot of experience with OS deployment or a lot of patience and desire to learn. There are generally two ways to do this on the EX47x series: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nodakengineering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}