Hi, I have a similiar situation: Laptop IBM Thinkpad 600X with PCMCIA-Card 3C575. PCMCIA is not supported in the linuxboot, therefore I use the dosbootdisk. There is a bootdisk for 3C575 which works well and copies the necessary files to the laptop (in my case for Windows 2000 professinal with SP4 slipstreamed).
I get the same error message and a detailed look at the disk after installation shows that the filesystem is trashed: there is a directory found.000 with a lot of files and some filenames in directory i386 have corrupted names. And thus windows-setup is complaining missing files. I tried using w2000-prof original without service-pack but this changes only the missing files: setup starts but there are a lot of files which setup does not find. Next suspect was the line in autoexec.bat with smartdrv. This is used whithout any switches due to a problem with Windows-XP but I don't like the write behind cache in MS-DOS. So I changed this line in autoexec.bat and built a new bootdisk (actually I used function key F8 and single stepped through autoexec.bat without changing anything and skipping smartdrv and doit.bat). This seemed to resolve the problem: I can now install the laptop with unattended without problems. Regards Stefan Kell On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Mailinglists Address wrote: > I am having difficulty installing Windows 2003 Server (standard) using a > "Nothing But Net" install method. > > Let me start off by saying that I am not doing a standard install of > Unattended as I already have an existing infrastructure for PXE booting > other operating systems (various distros of linux, freebsd, and some > diagnostic utilities). > > Here is how I have my setup configured. If this is incorrect, or isn't > proper according to the way Unattended expects it to work, please let me > know what I am missing. > > I boot via PXE to a pxelinux boot menu where I select the bootdisk image > based on the manufacturer of the board (via, sis, etc). So in this > instance I load the fetnd image for the via rhine network card. The > system boots, loads the network, configures the unattend.txt file, etc > and proceeds to install the OS (Windows 2003 Standard w/ slipstreamed > SP1) to the drive. > > Additionally it should be noted that I have also slipstreamed the via > SATA drivers into the installation to get windows to boot. (I have added > a TEXTMODE dir under i386/$oem$/ and placed the driver, .inf file, cat > file and txtsetup.oem file in that dir.) > > The installation continues on and installs the files onto the hard drive > via the network, and then I am prompted to reboot. I reboot the computer > and this time select the Local option from my boot menu which boots from > the local hard drive. The windows installation continues and does a > modification to the hard drive and prompts me to reboot. I reboot once > again and select the local option and windows setup starts again. > Windows setup then goes into protect mode and I am given the following > error screen: > > "Setup cannot access the CD containing the Windows installation files. > > To retry, press ENTER. If you are not successful after several tries, > quit Setup. Then, to restart Setup, copy the Windows installation files > to your hard disk. > > To quit Setup, press F3." > > Repeated attempts to continue fail and I have to press F3 and the > computer reboots. > > I have tried copying over the installation directory to the hard disk > and running it from there, but because the drivers are slipstreamed, I > have been unable to get this method to boot (BSOD). > > Am I missing a step where the floppy images are loaded, and the drive is > mapped and then the second stage of windows install begins? That is the > only thing I can come up with as of right now... I am missing some step > that is specific to the way Unattended is intended to function. > > Please let me know what I am doing wrong. > > Thank you in advance. > > Tom Walsh > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
