trouble with unattended installation

[thieske]

hello, my big effort to get an unattended installation through a networkshare is almost complete...

I've managed so far to :

* Create a share on my server (\\SRV\Windist , containing i386)

* Create an answer file (placed in i386)

* Create a bootdisk which maps K: to the share

* Access files and execute files on the share (share is on a win2k3 adv srv)

* To execute Winnt.exe without the prompt : "unable to create blabla"

Now the latest step in my sequence is to execute winnt.exe and start the installation unattended (Winnt.exe /u:K:\I386\winnt.sif s:K:\i386)

It works but after a few seconds and the message in the grey bar, reading dos-inf or something like that i get the message : "not enough memory, setup cannot continue" (my xp version is dutch so i need to translate it for u)

Anyone any idea's are there programms that give me more memory or which enable to continue to install.... cuz i'm getting tired...

With kind regards,

Thies

[prathapml]

Do have atleast 256 MB for any server - otherwise u will see those problems.

Although WinServer 2k3 says 128 MB is the min. requirement, it is not too good to use it on that little amount.

[thieske]

i think the problem is related to the client, the server has 512 MB memory...

The client however is booted with a floppy drive, which starts PC dos 7.10, and that's the problem, because there are certain networkdrivers which need to be loaded in order to connect to the share on the win2k3 server...

Once i am able to free up enough memory to start winnt.exe (i can start it already, but it prompts me in the bleu screen that i don't have enoug mem) my project is finished...

I really hope anyone could help me with this...

[thieske]

Does anyone know how much memory is needed to run winnt.exe in DOS...

My Config.sys looks like this below...

DEVICEHIGH=A:\HIMEM.SYS

DOS=HIGH,UMB

LASTDRIVE=Z

DEVICEHIGH=A:\NET\PROTMAN.DOS /i:A:\NET

DEVICEHIGH=A:\NET\EL90X.DOS

DEVICEHIGH=A:\NET\NTSTS.DOS

DEVICEHIGH=A:\NET\DLSHELP.SYS

FILES=40

BUFFERS=40

And the autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF

SET PATH=A:\NET\;a:\;%PATH%;

SET TEMP=A:\

SET TCPHELP=A:\NET

SET ETCDIR=A:\NET

A:\NET\NET START

A:\NET\NET.EXE USE K: \\srv\windist

how can i get more memory available

NOTE: it is PC DOS 7.10

NOTE2: At the moment i use 344k of conventional and 312 xms...

No Upper or reserved is used...

[SlimShady]

I think you can leave this out:

DEVICEHIGH=A:\NET\DLSHELP.SYS