[windows2000] Re: Remote Install Services help urgently neede d d please :-/

  • From: Mark Cook <mc@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:58:36 +0100

Cheers for all you suggestions, got a unpublished hotfix from MS that seems
to have cured the issue - well as far as XP Pro goes, so will crack on and
test with 2K Pro now !

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jensen, Douglas [mailto:douglas.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 June 2004 16:10
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Remote Install Services help urgently neede d d
please :-/

 

There are 2 different driver issues.

 

The first is that the computer will do a PXE boot.  If the computer is set
up to do this then this first part is OK.  If the computer is not set up
that way, there are a limited number of NICs that are supported by a PXE
boot disk.  3Com TX cards are one.  There are others from Intel and some
other manufacturers.  It is not possible to add drivers for a particular
card to this part so if your card is not supported or your computer does not
support PXE than you can always use a second card for the initial load and
then remove the card and install the proper drivers for the NIC you will
use.

 

The second driver issue is the case where the drivers for your NIC are not
on the Windows CD and in a normal install you need to have windows look at a
different spot for the drivers.  This appears to be your problem and that is
the OEM driver issue I mentioned in the previous email.

 

Look up the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article #246184.  It is How to add
third party OEM network adapters to RIS installations.  This can also be
used to add display drivers and sound drivers if those are also third party
drivers that need to be added separately from the regular Windows CD install
files.

 

Douglas Jensen 
Douglas.Jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Voice (952) 402-9821 
Fax    (952) 402-9815 
Network Administrator 
Scott Carver Dakota CAP Agency, Inc. 
712 Canterbury Road 
Shakopee, MN 55379 
www.capagency.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cook [mailto:mc@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:52 AM
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Remote Install Services help urgently neede d
please :-/

Cheers, will have a look but the strange thing is it's does PXEboot to the
select image screen ?

 

Mark

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Taylor [mailto:STaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 02 June 2004 15:51
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: Remote Install Services help urgently needed
please :-/

 

Hi Mark

 

You will have to check that your network card is supported by RIS.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/management/remotestep
s.asp
<http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/management/remoteste
ps.asp> 

 

The link above has the details. If not you can create a boot disk.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Stephen

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cook [mailto:mc@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 02 June 2004 15:42
To: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [windows2000] Remote Install Services help urgently needed please
:-/

Folks,  

 

Being new to RIS and and old hand with Altiris am slightly confused :-(  

 

Stopped using altiris due to it's inability to cope with partition size (max
DOS filesize being 2Gb and altiris running in DOS on the client!) etc. of
the client and moved to RIS for a Win2K deployment but getting a weird
error.  Run RIPREP on the client and upload the config to the server, yet
after PXE booting the client selecting the image it staff's and tells me the
selected image does not contain a suitable network driver for my PC hardware
- all 20 pc's are the same, have even tried it on the machine RIPREP was
done on ?

 

Any clues or pointers ???

 

 

Mark

 

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