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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
