is the industry standard for "Do-It-Yourself" Windows network deployment.
Wimboot relies on several key technologies: wimboot
| Feature | Traditional | WIMBoot | Compact OS | |---------|-------------|---------|-------------| | | Extracted to disk | Inside WIM + pointers | Compressed on disk (per-file) | | Partitions needed | 1 (system) | 2+ (system + WIM storage) | 1 | | Compression | None | LZX (max) | XPRESS4K/8K/16K/LZX | | File modification | In-place | Overlay (copy-on-write) | In-place (decompress+recompress if needed) | | Reset/Recovery | Reimage | Delete overlay files | Reimage or reset | | Introduced in | Always | Windows 8.1 Update 1 | Windows 10 v1511 | such as bootmgr.exe
: You need specific files from a Windows ISO, such as bootmgr.exe , boot.sdi , and boot.wim . wimboot
: A typical iPXE script for booting might look like this: