How to network boot a laptop

ankitchhatbar

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Hello,
I Have a laptop, the acer aspire 1, the netbook. so it does not have a cd/dvd drive. i want to install windows xp into it. i have a desktop running in windows xp. the laptops os is corrupt and can not get any os to boot. so i want to format it and install windows xp again. i tried using a flash disk by making it bootable by making a primary partition and making it active, than copying the os from the cd to the flash disk by using the command 'xcopy E:\*.
* /s/e/f H:\' it copies but gives an error in booting saying 'disk error' so i have the only option to boot using network. tell me how to do this using windows xp on my desktop.

Your ans will be highly appreciated