Ben Avery

Just on the offchance, I'm sure you will have checked. On the RIS server, you no doubt have a network share containing the RIS image(s). I assume this share is set to "Maximum Allowed" users and not just 1?

Thanks RogueSpear I thought it was me as (like yourself) I wouldn't have dreamed that M$ would go to the trouble of changing something so useful, especially as it means pulling so much more accross the network! Anyway, I am indebted to you and your great guide, and with the small matter of having to decompress those files again, all now works well! If I get a chance, I will attempt to recompress some of them and see if I can help find which ones work, and which ones don't. I think it may be a longish job! Thanks again. BA

RogueSpear I went through the guide from the start right the way up until the end of the RyanVM part. I didn't want to use nLite or BTS for the present one so skipped those sections. I ran into a few problems though. After I have finished the guide, I stopped and started the service, and booted the PXE boot computer. It briefly goes through the DHCP part and F12 booted me into the RIS installation options part. I clicked through the default settings, logging in with a domain admin account. When the files started to copy accross, I get an Error: The file KDCOM.DLL could not be loaded. The error code is 4. This error fixes if I decompress the file and try again, but then the next file comes up with the same error etc. Eventually, after decompressing all of the following files from your list, the RIS image loaded successfully: AVMC20.DLL AVMCAPI.DLL BOOTVID.DLL DIAPI2.DLL DIAPI232.DLL DIAPI2NT.DLL DIGIASYN.DLL DIGIDBP.DLL DIGIFWRK.DLL DIGIHLC.DLL DIGIISDN.DLL HAL.DLL HALAACPI.DLL HALACPI.DLL HALAPIC.DLL HALMACPI.DLL HALMPS.DLL HALSP.DLL IBMSGNET.DLL KD1394.DLL KDCOM.DLL NTKRNLMP.EXE NTOSKRNL.EXE OSCHOICE.EXE SETUPLDR.EXE XLOG.EXE *.NLS *.OSC *.SYS Things then ran and installed smoothly but very slowly as the files are now much larger. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong? Do you have any suggestions on how to fix this? BA

RogueSpear Am currently working through your guide from the top. I am at the NIC driver section and cannot download your 7z package as it's no longer on your website! Do you have a current set of NIC drivers still? BA

G'day, I'm having some real trouble with setting up a RIS installation on our server. Background The RIS server has been setup and was tested on a base install and worked ok. Objective We want to create a single RIS image with the following simple(?) requirements: The Windows XP Professional install should include SP2 plus all post SP2 updates to date (the main reason for this, other than large post-install downloads, is getting the KB888111 drivers for High Definition Audio integrated for the Dell machines these will be pushed out to - Dell OptiPlex 210L machines) I need the sif file to point to certain BTS driver folders during main install (not text mode part). These include, CHIPSET, GRAPHICS, LAN, MASS STORAGE, SOUND and WLAN. Although this particular install currently applies only to Dell OptiPlex machines, we would like this single RIS install to also work on the large variety of other laptops and desktops around the school. After the main O/S install is complete, we need to run our Program script from the GuiRunOnce section of the sif file. Progress So far I have tried the following: I took a clean XP SP2 CD and used the RyanVM integrator (v1.3.0) to slipstream the post SP2 hotfixes update pack (RVMUpdatePack2.0.7a.cab) and addon for WMPlayer 10 (RVMAddonsWMP10_2.6.cab) On completion I ran RISetup.exe on the RIS server, pointed a new installation to the directory containing the RyanVM updated XP cd and let the server copy accross the files etc. Next, I edited the sif file to reflect our changes. The file is attached below (in txt format) along with the batch file (in txt format) used for the applications install. I stopped and restarted the binlscv service and booted a PC via PXE. At reaching the "Press F12..." screen after the DHCP part, I press F12 and the screen goes black and nothing happens. After several minutes troubleshooting I tried running the "Check this remote server for errors" option on RISetup.exe and it then let me boot up ok, however the customised screens from the original working image are now gone and the default RIS setup screens appear (not that this is a problem to fix). I'm curious as to what happened. Is it because the server is not all that great spec or something else? Anyway, after starting the install the setup gets to copying files but starts to error out on nearly all the files around the 88% mark. What's going on!? BA batch.txt sif.txt

Apologies, this got posted twice!