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Caladan

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January 15th, 2004 10:00

RIS Problem with Dimension 2400 Second Post!

This is my second attempt at posting this; the first was to no avail, and recieved no responses.

 

I created an RIPREP Image for my environment with a batch of dell dimension 2400's we have, and rebooted my machine.  When attempting to test the RIPREP image, I recieved the following error.

"The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary drivers for your network adapter.  Try selecting a different operating system image. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator.  Setup cannot continue. Press any key to continue "   

I installed a base load of windows xp via RIS with the correct broadcom 4401 drivers installed. Everything installed correctly, so I made sure all the drivers were set correctly and installed groupwise, then attempted to try an RIPREP image and as RIPREP is a secondary overlay of the original RIS image, I'm curious why I'm having this problem. I did what MS said would fix this issue in their KB articles

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q247983 

and

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q246184

and made sure the bios is up to date set up a sysprep.ini file in the c:\sysprep folder and pointed it to the location of the nic drivers.  I then ran another RIPREP, hoping it would work, but it did not.

The dell tech who emailed me suggested these 2 kb articles

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324573&Product=winxp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308299&Product=winxp

Neither of which addressed my problem effectively.

At this point, I'm at a loss, and I'm hoping that someone will read this article and hopefully have a better solution.

HELP!!!???

 

Thank you!

-Larry

fireberd

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January 15th, 2004 13:00

Here is one MS article I found (doing a search for ripprep on google).  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/deployguide/acicc_ris_xhav.asp

This really gets into client server networking and may be past the general scope of this forum section and the reason you're not getting any responses.  Most of the issues posted here are more general Windows XP user operation issues than the higher level networking type of issues.

There are some server sections on this forum.  Maybe posting in one of the more appropriate server sections will get more response as the "regulars" there are more versed in servers, disk images, etc.  This should be a snap for an MSCE or 3rd level help desk tech.

WaverLH

2 Posts

March 3rd, 2004 13:00

I'm having the same issue right now!  We just purchased 106 new Dimension 2400s and now I can't get RIS to install any of them.  (Talk about a bad situation  )  Does anyone have an idea why the Broadcom NIC drivers aren't working?  I have a pretty good grasp on RIS and we have 3 other Dell Optiplex models working with RIS so I would think it's not the server installation.  Drivers were added to the i386 and Drivers\Nic directorys, etc...

Help!!!

WaverLH

 

b_peter

9 Posts

December 8th, 2004 05:00

Ok, I was having the same problem for about 5 hours tonight, tried every mskb mentioned with zero success.  Finally I decided try broadcom drivers instead of dells and wouldn't ya know they worked!!!  Download them here: http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php
 
What a hassle I must say.

Caladan

9 Posts

December 8th, 2004 11:00

Ya know.. I tried the broadcom drivers "way back when" I did the first post on this.  They seemed to work initially on a standard ris setup.. but, when doing a RIS installation from an RIPREP image, they bombed terribly.  We have somewhat of a time consuming configuration that goes on these units... and RIPREP was the best overall solution.   However, we resigned to just using plain 'ol ris to get the base image on the units.  We got 50% of what we wanted to be automated.  I guess you just have to live with certain things!

b_peter

9 Posts

December 8th, 2004 18:00

Ok, I am getting this to work with a riprep image on a dimension 2400.  I can get past the "os doesn't have the right drives for your nic" no problem now.
 
This is what I did:
 
1.  Installed RIS on my w2kserver.
2.  During install it asked for a disk with the RIS os I wanted to use, I just pointed it to my servers i386 dir which contains w2kserver.
3.  On my xp pro box I slipstreamed SP2 onto a copy of the i386 directory.  This is a vital step if your riprep image has SP2 applied already.
4.  I copied the newly updated i386 folder to the server.
5.  On the server I went into ris properties and added a new RIS installation and pointed it to the new i386 w/sp2 folder.
6.  I deleted the w2kserver installation because it was useless anyways.
7.  From my xp box I ripreped it's image to the server using the updated riprep software from M$.  I think this update is critical as well, because it fixes some issues of some sort.  Now the server has 2 dirs, one with xp+sp2 install, and one with the image I want to use.
7.  Back on the server I created the $oem$ dir and subdirs at the i386 level in my image directory.
8.  I placed the broadcom xp drivers which I d/l from broadcom in the /nic dir under $oem$ and in the i386 dir.
9.  I restarted binl service and mass storage groveler service.
10.  Went to a client comp. (dimension 2400) booted in pxe and it worked!!!
 
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