I searched for this using Google and found a recommendation to use the Linux boot disk, instead. So I burned that and went forward...
good choice!
Using the Linux boot disk, it quickly copies the first "group" of files (ending with os/WinXPsp2/I386/NTLDR) and then hangs. The screen says "Please wait while Setup copies files to your hard disk." After a while, there is occasional progress but smb messages appear and eventually Setup times out.
smb_add_request: request [c54de0e0, mid=6092] timed out!
This happened to me several times, too. It was always caused by either:
1) server side
- server too old/slow to handle the requests (I suspect other hardware problems)
- network card in the server broken / bad driver (what card do you have and what module does it use)?
2) client side
- on some older hardware I occassionally saw it when I was installing more than 5 clients in the same time; it was not "critical" and it recovered though.
Other observations:
(1) One of the "./prepare" files does not seem to exist:
just correct it in the script (or remove it). links in the internet tend to change...
(2) Linux Boot does not default the Guest password to "Guest" when manually changing the defaults. There's nothing wrong with this; it's just different than the DOS boot disk.
you can prepare your own CD with your own server, path, username and password.
Tomek
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