ooky Posted February 8, 2006 Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hello all!I have a BartPE bootable via PXE and I am attempting to do an unattended install over the network. The install starts then during 'Preparing the Installation' it goes back to 'Collecting Information' and stays there.If I attempt to do a manual install by executing winnt32.exe, the install complains that it is out of memory after the language and accessability settings. It will actually go into an loop of asking the same questions until it just stops and won't go any further. Other functions of the boot image at this point no longer work, such as rebooting, clicking on menus, and task manager.I have been able to boot off of CD and conduct a successful unattended install with the same image as the one used for PXE. I have tried this on systems that have 512 meg of memory up to 4 gig. I have tried this on multiple systems with varying standard hardware.Here is my winnt.sif:[setupData]BootDevice = "ramdisk(0)"BootPath = "\i386\System32\"OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect /minint /rdexportascd /rdpath=PEBUILDER.ISO"I have NTLDR (aka ntdetect.exe), startrom.0 and ntdetect.com from Windows 2003 SP1 in the default tftp directory. I appreciate your patience if this has been dealt with before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brainstane Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 Instead of copying the install files over the network, put your source folders on a USB drive and try to kick off the unattended install from there. You'll need to assign the USB drive a letter (I use Z:) and put the path to the $OEM$ folder in the unattend.txt in the OEMFILESPATH entry. This will tell you if it's a networking issue or if there's something wrong with your unattended setup. I've seen broadcom nics "hang" and never really complete the install, but when the same machine is booted and the source files are located on a USB drive, everything works fine and the install proceeds normally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooky Posted February 13, 2006 Author Share Posted February 13, 2006 (edited) . . . put your source folders on a USB drive and try to kick off the unattended install from there.That did not work either. It goes through the same sort of loop.This works perfectly booting BartPE off a cd, just not when booting through PXE. Edited February 13, 2006 by ooky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jazkal Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 what was your BartPE source from? XP, 2k3, 2k3 SP1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooky Posted March 31, 2006 Author Share Posted March 31, 2006 XP, SP2.Actually I may have found the answer. It may have something to do with the "RpcSS needs to launch DComLaunch Service first - SP2 only." I found an alternative which seems to be working. http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16549I think it may have something to do with the fact that the PXE boot needs ramdisk.sys from 2003. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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