johnrm

Hi there, if this is for you personally, or for your admin jobs in-house, you could try using the nlite tool. http://www.nliteos.com/guides.html Works very well and is quite easy to use. You can then look into the text files it creates to teach yourself some of the changes made. Cheers,

So now I'm figuring out that there is something messed up in my txtsetup.sif file.... but I'm not sure where. I know this because I used Nlite to set up an unattended CD and it works just fine. But as I respect the intellectual property of the writer of Nlite, I do not want to use it in my media as it will be sold in our machines. Now I tried to look at what was different, and add those differences to my txtsetup.sif file, but that didn't work. One version gave me a Blue Screen of Death and the other just resorted to the same original error. As far as I can tell, the files look identical (other than my file numbering and nlite's numbering). Any ideas? Thanks for the help in advance, Cheers

Well still no luck. I have no clue as to why it is going into a reboot loop. The system won't even boot up for the first time. But it seems to install fine, no error messages or anything. I really need to understand what the loop is all about. Could the Silicon Image Drivers be causing a problem? They seem to work just fine in textmode. Has anyone had any experience similar to this?

Howdy, how's the job market for software system engineers in Texas?

Hi, this is my story. Hopefully, others have experienced this and will either help me find my problem, or find help from the solution I hope to get here. I built an install cd with Silicon Image drivers built in so I don't need to constantly futz with my USB floppy to get it to be recognized by the new installation. That worked, or at least it seemed to work. I also included some hotfixes in this installation following the OPK (OEM Pre-installation Kit) directions on including hotfixes to the installation. This also seemed to work. Windows goes through the entire install process (it's not really unattended as I haven't yet built fully filled in all the details in the Winnt.sif script) prompting me along the way for the regular info, network, name, company name and date and time...... all acceptable to me, and finally, finishes the installation. Upon reboot, it comes up to the "Press any key to boot from CD..." prompt and I let it pass, then, the screen with "Windows 2003 Server, Compute Cluster Edition" pops up only for a fraction of a second, showing itself only as a ghostly image before the machine reboots. With or without the CD in the drive, the system ends up in this endless reboot cycle. Where do I look for answers for this? Thanks in advance for your help. John

Hi all, I'm living and working in Taiwan for a computer manufacturer. I'm trying to make my job easier by automating many repetitive tasks like system installation and the like. I'm also doing a lot of research in clustering (for science and processing power, not load balancing) and have been using Windows 2003 Server Compute Cluster Edition for quite some time now. I'm an old hack at Linux and I'm just now digging deeper into Windows to become the same with this OS. I'm not a zealot for any OS as I am a geek first..... I use what works..... period. Glad to become a part of the community and hopefully will be able to contribute some of my knowledge as well as find solutions here. Cheers, John