I have been struggling with a similar problem, with the installs on one machine type stopping dead at the 'Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP' stage. I have found a workaround, that although it is not elegant does seem to work (subject to a bit more testing).
I have assumed that my DHCP server is correct since most of my PXE enabled machines will boot OK, so I made the assumption that there was a problem with driver compatability with this one machines PXE stack. I did have though a working boot floppy so what I did, was copy that floppy image to my tftpd root folder, and made an extra entry on the boot menu - without the keeppxe tag. now the machine network boots, loads the image, drops the PXE driver (because keeping it caused the boot to error out) and then loads the machine specific driver. Not a generic solution like a working PXE driver - but it works, and since this machine accounts for about 30% of our network I'm happy. At the menu I now have the choice of typing inst as normal or blue - which loads the driver for our rouge machines (which happen to have blue cases) Hope that the idea might help someone else out of a hole Regards Kevin Lawry -----Original Message----- From: David Ehrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2003 00:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Unattended] DHCP not found I've gotten pretty far with unattended, but now I have a problem. Whenever I try to boot (I've tried two computers), I get this: Initializing TCP/IP via DHCP.... no DHCP server found: TCP/IP not loaded Unloadable TCP 1.0 not loaded. then some stuff that failed. The real issus it that DHCP must be working since PXE worked and DHCP has worked fine before. Any ideas? Does unattended support Windows 9x? How does the built in partition program work with the Windows Installation partioner? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dial Broadband has arrived in California! Up to 5 times faster than traditional dialup connections from $13.33/month! See the demo for yourself! http://www.BigValley.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
