[Unattended] pxe error

[Bram B. <b...@be...>]

Hi all,

First, I'd like to congratulate the creators of Unattended for their great job 
they've done. Currently, the cdrom player on my friends (floppy-less) laptop 
is broken and I need to reinstall Winblows for him, so pxe-booting into the 
Windows-installer is my only option.

However, I ran into some difficulties.
I've got a server here with VMWare on it that runs a couple of 
Linux-environments, where I set up a pxe-boot server. Next, I configured it 
using the tutorial in the website and copied the i386 dir from a (legal, 
yes :-)) Winslows XP disk to it. I tested the boot-process using another 
VMware environment and all went well. 
Now the troubles begin: I powered on the laptop, switched to pixieboot, and 
guess what, things go wrong. I haven't had the time to dig into the 
Unattended-setup-bowels, but the error messages come down to this:

First, I get a:
Error in CONFIG.SYS line 6:
DEVICE=himem.sys

Error in CONFIG.SYS line 13:
DEVICEHIGH=\net\ifshlp.sys


Next, the process seems to continue:
FreeCom version 0.82........blah blah
Unattended Boot Disk Stating...
Initializing Network Card....

Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed.

some more blah blah blah regarding NEMM.DOS

Clearly, something goes wrong on the laptop (Acer Aspire 1510, stats: 
http://www.phear.org/news/acer_aspire_1510_1513_amd64_debian/) where it does 
not in the VMWare env. I use the default undis3c network driver, since I use 
PXE boot, but I've tried every other one too...

Could someone be of any help here, I really'd like to solve this before I 
command my friend to switch to Linux ;-p

Oh, btw, I'm using tftpd-hpa 0.42-1

regards,

Bram