programmerbob

I'm a noob when it comes to pxe booting, and not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have a multicast windows deployment services image setup and listening. When I try to pxe boot, it just gets stuck doing dhcp, and then never finds the server. Does the server and target computer need to be on the same subnet to find each other? I don't have control over AD(I'm an OU administrator in a large college), so hopefully I don't need to set things there. I've never used pxe to deploy my images before though, so I might be missing something.

When the automatic windows updates run where to the files that are downloaded get stored temporarily? I have a number of computers that we will be visiting for a migration and need to have people install the windows patches. We don't currently have wsus, etc to help in this regard. I was thinking that if they are stored in a place that is readable that I could dump the files I already had downloaded from the msft site into a folder and have it install. Failing this is there a script that will allow me to just run the patches sequentially without integrating into an os?

I recently have gotten a Dell Dimension 9150(aka XPS 400), and I can't seem to get the drivers to work properly with an unattended installation(using WinPE).(it's a 80551 Pentium D 2.8) It will format the drive then when it gets to the point where the computer reboots, it passes the dell screens, it will give a black screen of death. P.s. I have added mass storage devices before using the drvinst.exe method and it has worked before. There are 4 settings in the dell bios-> RAID Autodetect/AHCI(the default) RAID Autodetect/ATA RAID on Combination(SATA/PATA) I don't particularly need RAID, so that's not an issue if I have to shut it off. Anyone have any luck with this sort of setup? I'm sure I'm doing something stupid though it's always that way it seems.

I have an automated office installation that works fine when I go and run it from the command line: setuppro.exe TRANSFORMS="officesetup.MST" /qb- But when I put it into runonceex.cmd during my unattended windows installation, it won't install office, it looks like it runs but does nothing. All my other applications are working fine. rem Office used ORK reg ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Microsoft Office" /f reg ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\installs\office2003\setuppro.exe tranforms=\"officesetup.mst\"" /f

I have a Dell Latitude 810, laptop that has the built in intel wireless card that comes with centrinos, and a second LAN card in it. I've got the network addresses setting up fine in unattend.txt, unfortunately I'm not sure how to setup the unattend to check if it's a wireless card or not. I have it setup so that it takes the first network card setup comes across as the one to put in the DNS settings, WINS, etc. I don't want the DNS settings, WINS, etc being setup on the wireless card for obvious reasons. Do I have to do some sort of hardware ID check in unattend.txt to handle this sort of issue?

A question some of the older posts talked about X700 and X800 being supported but nothing else, is there a stop gap solution until you release your next driver package? But aside from that it's great help to my project(a non-RIS distribution box)

I have an unattended setup that works fine over the network. I have 1 "server" for the files and 2 machines that need to be setup. I fire up the first install using the windows PE CD, run my unattend.bat file. I then try to fire up the second install using a second PE CD, it will end up freezing up both installations when it gets to the GUIsetup part(after the computer restarts and all). I'm not sure why it would have an issue with doing multiple installs at the same time.

I have an Unattend setup(which runs over the network), but that doesn't seem to be the most efficient way to do multiple computers that are carbon copies of each other.

I work for a college department where the budget is somewhat limited.(There are about 300-400 computers in the entire department) I haven't had much luck finding anything on google or sourceforge. I want to image one of these computers and then duplicate it for 10 computers. It is possible that over time every computer will be imaged in some way. (as new computers arrive) The $22 per computer amount is a little pricy for the number of computers we have. I'm wondering if any of you have used any alternatives. Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone has all of the tags that you can use relating to networking in unattend.txt. I want to have my PE install insert the DNS servers, WINS servers, DNS suffix for the computer, that sort of stuff. Other than that my automated installation works.( )