Intel Pro/1000 GT & RIS

[dwheeler]

I am having problems using RIS to get an image onto a machine with the Intel Pro/1000 GT NIC in it. I keep getting the infamous 'image does not contain the necessary drivers' error message. I created the image as I needed it to be and then used riprep to upload the image to the RIS server (this is a server 2003 machine). I have extracted the drivers for the NIC and put them into the 'RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\ImageName\i386' folder (which had no other files in it, only a couple of folders - I presume this is correct) and also created the 'RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\ImageName\$oem$\$1\Drivers\Lan' folder and put the drivers in it and this did not work. I then removed the drivers from the i386 folder and replaced it with the E1000325.INF file that Intel have on their website (as per the instructions on the Intel website) but this still didn't work (didn't know whether this would work anyway as the new inf file contains no mention of the Pro/1000 GT in it).

I am probably missing something simple here but was hoping someonw could point me in the right direction.

Cheers

[Br4tt3]

check ur Event Viewer if there is a parser error (BINLSVC source) refering to the .inf files of the RIS image...

in case there is, it's prolly a bad .inf file u gotten that needs to be edited.. also, if the .inf file name was:

E1000325.INF

u should find a file named:

E1000325.PNF

in ur image i386 directory once the installation has been succesfull! I use the same driver file as u r refering to and this is what I had to:

1. Edit the E1000325.INF file in the i386 directory (leave the corresponding .inf file in the $OEM$ structure be) and find the section that reads (create a backup of the old one, .old)

[Intel.NTx86.5.1]

2. Replace this section so that it reads;

[Intel]

Restart the BINLSVC service and the press F12 on the client again... if i am not mistaken, this happend when I applied SP1 to Win2003... hope it helps!

[Ctrl-X]

If this is a Windows XP image, you'll need the "special" e1000325.inf file in the i386 folder. There's another one for Windows 2000 which is called e1000nt5.inf, so if this is a Windows 2000 image you'll need that one.

You say you've removed the drivers from the i386 folder. Does that mean you removed the corresponding .sys file as well? You'll need to keep that; just replace the "real" .inf file with the "special" one. Don't forget to restart the Remote Installation service (BINLSVC) on the RIS server after replacing the .inf file in the i386 folder.

BTW: in my opinion this question belongs in the unattended RIS installation subforum.

[dwheeler]

It is bizzare. I move the old driver files back into the i386 folder for the image, I left the $oem$\$1\Drivers\Lan folder with the same driver files in it. I then move the E1000325.cat, .din, .inf and .sys files into the i386 folder of a basic XP Pro with SP2 image that is on the server. I then booted the client up and it has now all worked. Very strange. Many thanks for the help anyway.