Fencer128

Hi Everyone, Long time no see, to say the least! Well, having let this drag on since May without much update or contribution - Bashrat's recent realisation that life is overtaking free time has finally caught up with me too. When I was working in my last job (pre-May 2006) I had enough spare time to devote to RISult and the attention to detail it required. In February or March that year I finally decided to bite the bullet and recode from DOS to VB. However, I hadn't reckoned on the job change that was approaching. I was offered a greatly improved post and salary at a different company and so moved employer with much enthusiasm. However, it soon became apparent that this was an all consuming not-enough-hours-in-the-day affair, without the project time I was used to. I thought I'd be able to work through this initial position and end up with the time I had previously. Regrettably, 7 months along I'm still far from realising this and have had to reserve any development purely for urgent in-house scenarios. I haven't got the reliable or fully functional VB app I'd intended and so have, regrettably, decided to call it a day. Even the code I have now does not work acceptably with Bashrat's new utility. Because of this postion, I have decided that there will be no further public development of RISult from myself . I've looked very briefly at Roguespear's new app and that seems the logical way forward. From previous conversations I know he has to the knowledge and skills to deliver first rate RIS solutions so would advise anyone still using RISult to investigate this. Thanks to everyone that made use of RISult, sorry for letting you down and good luck for the future, Andy ps I will still be around on MSFN from time to time, just not coding too much!

Hi Guys, I've not disappeared entirely... I've just changed job and am busy setting up RIS there, along with a new RIS dev server I've bought for my home. The end result is that I am looking at the new BTS installer and want to get it working with RISult ASAP. I will keep you posted but it's not quite ready yet. I'll post here as soon as I have more news. Cheers, Andy

Hi, I've got a Dell PowerEdge SC430 with 2GB of RAM that I want to install an evaluation copy of server 2k3 x64 on. However, whenever I try I always get the same result. At the end of the first part of text-mode setup, just before the drive partition/formatting options usually appear, the PC bluescreens with no specific information given. I've tried different RAM, various BIOS tweaks and always get the same outcome. If I use server 2003 SP1 (32bit) then everything works fine. I've downloaded the media twice and burnt it on two seperate machines using different media but with no joy. Am I missing something? The mobo doesn't have HW RAID, but could I need another mass storage driver? Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Andy

Hi, You answered your own question. Just create as many customised copies of ristndrd.sif files as you like. As long as they're in the templates folder and they have the .SIF extension, everything will be fine. The actual file name is not important. Cheers, Andy

Hi, You may well be right. I'll look into it as soon as I have a new host. I have no control over my old host for the moment, as I've just changed job in the last two weeks, and my previous host was my last employer... (also hence my lack of appearances/activity/updates). Thanks for clearing that one up. Cheers, Andy

Hi, I haven't got the time to completely trouble shoot this at the moment, but it could be related to the previous issues mentioned in this thread. I suggest that you install the latest stable version of 7-zip on your PC, then copy the 7z.exe from the 7-zip program folder over the copy in RISult's ...\BTS folder. Then re-run RISult. Let me know how it goes. Cheers, Andy

Hi all, Some of you may know that I've got a new job, and so my current employer will no longer be able to host RISult for me. As such, I'm doing a couple of things: 1. Changing from .zip to .7z compression method in order increase compression efficiency. 2. Looking for new hosting. The download links for RISult may therefore be changing shortly, so please be patient. Thanks, Andy ps - There will be more drastic changes in store when Bashrat releases his new utility...

Hi, Check out the FAQ on creating your own driver pack: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56824 Also, I would concentrate on just integrating the driver, rather than the asscoiated utilities too. The unofficial 32-bit driverpacks thread contains a HP printer driverpack (originally put together by myself), which has, amongst other things, the driver you want within it. Good Luck, Andy

Hi, That's weird, as the only file that's used AFAIK is 7z.exe. Anyhow, I'll investigate and see if I can't reproduce. Cheers, Andy

Hi, You shouldn't have to install 7zip on your RIS server, so something's else must be wrong. I suspect this also has something to do with the other errors you're getting. Can I check that you're using: Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise SP1 (RIS server) Windows XP Professional SP2 (client) You are using vanilla XP file sets (i.e. straight from CD) and not nlited, etc? That you have read the instructions enclosed with RISult. Also, can you please copy the 7z.exe file from the z-zip program folder to the RISult BTS folder (overwriting the existing 7z.exe) and then uninstall 7-zip through Add/Remove programs? This will show whether it is the 7z.exe file itself that is the issue. Cheers, Andy

Hi, Correct. RISult does the extraction, you don't need to. I can't think why it's not working for you. Could you please try going to the 7zip homepage and downloading the latest stable 7zip? Having done that, extract it and drop 7z.exe into the BTS folder (overwriting the one supplied with RISult)? It may be something I've somehow missed with the version of RISult I've included, though I used it last week without incidence. Hopefully, that should be the end of it. If it does fix the issue for you, I'll update the RISult download ASAP. Cheers, Andy

Hi, Can you try downloading the BASE pack again? It sounds like it may be corrupt. I've not seen that error before. The BASE file should be in the BTS folder. The DriverPacks should be in the DriverPacks_Store folder. Failing all of the above, try re-downloading RISult in case that got corrupted somehow. Let me know how it goes, Andy

Hi Pete, Yep - you're right, I should have spotted that one! OEMPreinstall=Yes is what you needed. Glad everything worked out for you. Cheers, Andy

Hi, The problem is that the script can't find robocopy. The quick answer is to copy the robocopy.exe to system32 (or somewhere else in the path). If you can't find it in DP Base then you can get robocopy from the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (if memory serves) which is a free download. Good luck, Andy

Hi, Do you mean text mode setup network/mass storage drivers, or GUI mode drivers (i.e. Graphics, Sound, etc).? Also, can you confirm whether a missing $OEM$ folder was the reason for your build issues, as stated in my previous post to you? Thanks, Andy