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I agree with you but if you are not part of the solution you are a part of the problem. I guess that makes me a part of the problem too.

I am really sorry to say it but you're living in the past. Save your grief and use XP. You are right though windows 98 should load on a dual core machine but your problem could be with other parts of the system. Windows 98 was engineered 10 years ago and modern pc makers do not test their stuff with older os's. You may be running into problems because windows 98 just won't run on the hardware. I could be wrong though.

The only way I know to change the client install options is through group policy. It is in Users/windows settings/RIS properties I think. It has to be one of those options I would think.

During the copy process the nic driver is loaded from several areas. One is the REMINST\Setup\English\Images\WINDOWS\i386 directory, another is the $OEM$\drivers\NIC directory where the image's sif file points to. If this is not setup correctly then the image will copy to the hard drive using the driver from the windows\i386 directory but after restart will be unable to use the NIC driver from the $OEM$ directory. You need the .cat .sys and .inf/.pnf (pnf in the windows\i386 directory, read the sticky ris document if you need help on .pnf files) in these locations to work properly. Before you start scrutinizing the contents of the sif file I would make sure that the drivers are working properly.

Check your sif file. There is a line for administrator under the Gui Unattended section. I don't know what the name of the line is because I don't use it but that could be changing it. It could also be carried over from the computer that the image was created from.

We have a LAN environment that is primarily windows based but with a few Linux machines for web services and File storage. Recently I had a problem with DNS not having Host records for a few of these machines. This is strange because I have scavenging on but I turned it on about 5 months ago. I am guessing that the records where removed because of scavenging I just don't know why it took so long. I have made some recent changes and made some of the zones AD integrated could this have caused DNS to not recognize which records where manually entered? Does DNS know if a record was manually entered or was added by DHCP? I would like to have scavenging turned on but I don't know how to ensure my non-windows machines won't be affected. Any thoughts?

1st right click on the folder or drive you want to share - go to sharing and security and click share this folder. Next go to my computer - tools pulldown then the view tab - go to the bottom and uncheck use simple file sharing. This will disable the guest account. You should only need to do this on the computer you are trying to access but you should do it on both just to be sure. To access the other computer go to the run command and type in \\the other computer then hit enter. \\tells windows that you are going to connect to another computer. it will prompt you for a username and password for the remote machine. use the format remotecomputer\username. This should work.

I finally got it working. The problem was that the drivers needed to be in the base windows image i386 folder directory as well as the riprep image's $oem$ folder.

I have the INF and SYS files in the i386 directory and I changed it the way broadcom's site said. The event viewer does give me an error that states problem parsing netclass.inf in the manufacturer portion. This does not make any since to me because the netclass.inf is unaltered. I did have to change a line under [manufacturer] in the nic driver inf but I don't understand how the two relate. Thanks for the help,

I tried to change the line... oempnpdriverspath=\windows\dell\drivers\nic\b44win.inf;\windows\dell\drivers\nic\bcm4sbxp.sys;\windows\dell\drivers\video;\windows\dell\drivers\chipset ...with no luck. I know that the CIW is seeing the sif file because if I change the spelling in the discription it is reflected in the CIW. It is just not pointing to the drivers correctly I think. It is probably a simple error I am just not seeing it.

I mistakenly posted this in the unattended forum so I am reposting it here now. I have been having a problem getting 3rd party device drivers to work on my RIS server. I have tried several client images and have configured the RIS server from scratch twice now. Every time I get to just after the CIW and receive the error: Operating system image does not contain the nessisary drivers for your network adapter. Here is a copy of my sif file. The drivers are in the $oem$\$1\dell\drivers folder under, not IN the i386 folder. I flattened the driver folder out so all of the files like inf cab and cat files are located in the same folder. I can't think of anything else to do. I would greatly appreciate any help I could recieve on this. We have a lot of laptops to image and this would save us a whole lot of man hours. Thank you [data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1 [setupData] OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice ="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%" SysPrepDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPPATH%" SysPrepDriversDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPDRIVERS%" [unattended] OemPreinstall = yes FileSystem = LeaveAlone ExtendOEMPartition = 0 TargetPath = \WINDOWS OemSkipEula = yes InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" oempnpdriverspath=\windows\dell\drivers\nic;\windows\dell\drivers\video;\windows\dell\drivers\chipset LegacyNIC = 1 repartition=yes unattendedmode=readonly unattendedswitch=yes [userData] FullName = "%USERFIRSTNAME% %USERLASTNAME%" OrgName = "%ORGNAME%" ComputerName ="%MACHINENAME%" productid= xxxx-bla bla bla [GuiUnattended] OemSkipWelcome = 1 OemSkipRegional = 1 TimeZone = %TIMEZONE% AdminPassword = "mypassword" [Display] BitsPerPel = 16 XResolution = 800 YResolution = 600 VRefresh = 60 [Networking] [NetServices] MS_Server=params.MS_PSched [identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes [RemoteInstall] Repartition = Yes UseWholeDisk = Yes

Thank you for the help. I have tried to specify the inf but not the sys. I have also not looked for drivers specificly for ris installation. Thank you for the insite.

I have been having a problem getting 3rd party device drivers to work on my RIS server. I have tried several client images and have configured the RIS server from scratch twice now. Every time I get to just after the CIW and receive the error: Operating system image does not contain the nessisary drivers for your network adapter. Here is a copy of my sif file. The drivers are in the $oem$\$1\dell\drivers folder under, not IN the i386 folder. I flattened the driver folder out so all of the files like inf cab and cat files are located in the same folder. I can't think of anything else to do. I would greatly appreciate any help I could recieve on this. We have a lot of laptops to image and this would save us a whole lot of man hours. Thank you [data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1 [setupData] OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice ="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%" SysPrepDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPPATH%" SysPrepDriversDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%SYSPREPDRIVERS%" [unattended] OemPreinstall = yes FileSystem = LeaveAlone ExtendOEMPartition = 0 TargetPath = \WINDOWS OemSkipEula = yes InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" oempnpdriverspath=\windows\dell\drivers\nic;\windows\dell\drivers\video;\windows\dell\drivers\chipset LegacyNIC = 1 repartition=yes unattendedmode=readonly unattendedswitch=yes [userData] FullName = "%USERFIRSTNAME% %USERLASTNAME%" OrgName = "%ORGNAME%" ComputerName ="%MACHINENAME%" productid= xxxx-bla bla bla [GuiUnattended] OemSkipWelcome = 1 OemSkipRegional = 1 TimeZone = %TIMEZONE% AdminPassword = "mypassword" [Display] BitsPerPel = 16 XResolution = 800 YResolution = 600 VRefresh = 60 [Networking] [NetServices] MS_Server=params.MS_PSched [identification] JoinDomain = %MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes [RemoteInstall] Repartition = Yes UseWholeDisk = Yes