Objective:

I have a very basic rough draft for a RIS server. It designed to be used for only the small computer repair shop in my company. Its sole purpose is to reload clients with the required baseline software and OS.

Specfications:

Single Server - HP dx5150, containing SiS SATA and Broadcom NIC.

OS - Server 2003

Topology - Isolated Workgroup

Clients - Mostly Dell Optiplex GX 240, 260, 270, 280, 520, 620, and various Latitude laptops.

# of clients - 5, Windows 2000 and up only, No WINS needed

DHCP Scope - 128.64.0.0 ~ 254, SN - 255.255.0.0

Default Gateway - 128.64.0.1

Server IP - 128.64.0.5

Progress:

So basically I have a fresh install of 2003; a very simple AD, DHCP, & DNS configuration. I have authorized the DHCP server, installed RIS from Add/Remove components, ran Risetup.exe, and created a clean XP Pro image.

Questions:

In order for this to work, do I need to add the SATA and NIC drivers to the ristndrd.sif? Am I supposed to create an $OEM$ folder in the same level as the i386 folder? Is the guide to do this on the msfn forum or at microsoft technet?

Questions:

In order for this to work, do I need to add the SATA and NIC drivers to the ristndrd.sif? Am I supposed to create an $OEM$ folder in the same level as the i386 folder? Is the guide to do this on the msfn forum or at microsoft technet?

1. U place ur $OEM$ folder structure at the same level as the i386 folder for the image.. so far so good!

2. The NIC drivers (*.inf and *.sys) needs to be copied to two places, the i386 folder, and the whole driver (normally *.inf, *.cat, *.sys) copied to the $OEM$\$1\Drv\Nic\MyNIC folder....

3. There are multiple ways of adding masstorage drivers to the installation image, I recommend u to use the TXTSETUP.SIF way of adding the SATA/RAID & SCSI to your installation. Basically, integrate *.inf information into the TXTSETUP.SIF file and the copy the required *.sys to the i386 folder!

4. There are loads of info within this forum on these topics...... spend ur time wise!

This might be something (to start with):

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/