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I have followed this blog and I am able to install Windows 7 over a PXE Server and Samba shares.

But this installation process is not completely automated. It boots the system using WinPE image created using Windows Automated Installation Kit. After WinPE image finishes loading, it shows a command prompt window on screen. Then I am mapping Windows installation sources configured on PXE Samba share directory, as a Network drive(net use z: \192.168.1.20\install\x64) and running setup.exe utility to start windows installation.

Is there any way to avoid this step and start windows installation directly?

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Basically you should run a script directly from WinPE automatically once it boots.

This script should map the drive, execute the startup and do any other functions you require.

This answer seems to explain best how to do this:

Under the "sources" folder on the PE key is the "boot.wim" file.

Mount Boot WIM: dism /Mount-Wim /wimfile:C:[WPE PATH]\sources\boot.wim /index:1 /MountDir:C:\Mounted_images\boot

Then the file can be found at: C:\Mounted_images\boot\Windows\System32\startnet.cmd

Commit changes and Unmount WIM: dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\Mounted_images\boot /commit

If you want to discard changes instead: dism /Unmount-Wim /MountDir:C:\Mounted_images\boot /discard

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