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We have just recieved some of the above mentioned Dell's and were having problems installing them with RIS, however i have finally!! managed to crack the problem with the network drivers not being found, only to be presented with another one... After it loads the setup files and goes on to say Setup is starting (black screen), it just blue screens and does not start the actual setup process. I have tried two different images and they both do the same, im thinking it may be a problem with the network drivers i have just added, or maybe something else, but apart from that im clueless. Please can anyone help me? Thanks

Ok, have copied those into the folder and still no luck getting it to work, which i386 folder should they be placed into, the riprep image, or the risetup image, i have also read about needing to delete some PNF files?

During the text mode setup phase Windows will pick up network interface drivers from the i386 folder. You have to extract the .sys and .inf files from the driver package and copy them to the mentioned folder. I might add that it is usually a good idea to spare one OEM installed machine intact, this way it is easier for you to go through the Device Manager and visually browse the hardware installed. We have done this, and it still refuses to load past that screen saying cannot locate driver, i am a beginner at RIS, and i have really only been given the job to maintain it, due to the fact my collegue left, and all he taught me to do was to create a riprep image and make it unattended. The rest im trying to teach myself as i go along. Which i386 folder does it need to be located in? At the moment we have about 10 images on the server, and one of the images is a ripsetup? (cant remember the exact name) image. Can anyone give me a simple how to guide on what i need to do to get it to work, at the moment we have only brought 7 of these PC's but we are going to be purchasing another 80 soon (for deployment over the summer) and would like to get the image in place now. All help appriciated, no matter how small.

Hi, We have recently purchased some Dell Inspiron 530's. The first thing we did was to install them using a Windows XP with SP2 disc, we then added all the applications needed and used Riprep to make an image. However, upon trying to image ther rest of the computers using RIS, with the image we just created, we got a message saying "Cannot find the network adapter drivers, contact your admin." After spending 2 days on google and the MS Knowledgebase, trying all the different suggestions, adding the drivers to the $oem$ folder, editing the .inf file ect, we still cannot get it to work. Any suggestions would be greatly appricatated. On another note we made an image using sysprep, which we added to WDS install images, and the same message comes up, when booting into WDS setup.