I'm installing it to a Dell Inspiron 2600 laptop for testing purposes. The NIC is a 3Com and I must admit that Windows XP is succesfully installed now that I have used the linux bootdisc.
Only thing I had with the linux cd was that the initial file copying went very slow... 20 min instead of 3 min with the dos bootdisc.... Maybe the dos version skipped everything.... :P Thx anyways! -Tom Shawn K. O'Shea schreef: > It sounds like you are using the DOS boot disk. Are you using the > undis3c image? What kind of hardware are you installing to? In > particular, what kind of network card is on that hardware? > > I found that on HP DL320's with HP's tweaked Broadcom ethernet, that I > ran into these problems. What it boils down to is that Broadcom's UNDI > stack, well, sucks. I used the DOS NDIS2 drivers from HP and made my > own DOS boot with those instead of the 3com undisc driver. Of note, is > that Intel 1000MT NICs using UNDI are still almost twice as fast as > HP/Broadcom using drivers specific for the card. > > -Shawn > > Tom van Leeuwen wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I have installed 'unattended' according to the step-by-step guide. >> I have copied a dutch WinXP SP2 image to the server which listens to >> the name 'server'. >> The server is running Linux (Fedora Core 4) and I have created a >> CNAME 'ntinstall' as the guide requires. >> For some reason when I boot the CDROM it won't connect to 'ntinstall' >> but it does to 'server'. While I can browse from my desktop to >> '\\ntinstall\install' with 'guest' / 'guest'. >> Weird, but doesn't matter much for now. I can always modify that >> manually during the bootup and can change it in the .bat scripts to >> suit my needs. >> >> But the main problem is that when I am trying to install the base >> system without applications, setup is unable to find certain files. >> The first message I get is: >> Setup cannot copy the file ftdisk.sys (translation from Dutch to >> English). >> It's also missing or unable to copy: >> partmgr.sys >> modem.sys >> fdc.sys >> serenum.sys >> swenum.sys >> cdaudio.sys >> odbcint.dll >> sfc.dll >> wdmaud.drv >> parvdm.sys >> ... (and a lot more) >> >> When I have skipped all files (which are a lot) the system reboots >> and says it cannot find <windows>\system32\hal.dll >> >> And then the system hangs. >> >> I wonder what I am doing wrong... >> >> With kind regards, >> Tom >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> unattended-info mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info >> >> >> _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
