2K3 Server + RIS + XP and Intel 100

[_Ombra_]

I've been trying for about 2 days. I'va a Toshiba Portege R100 with no floppy nor CD drive. I'm trying to install XP using RIS and i've Windows Server 2003 with everything setup and XP SP2 as an image but windows xp won't install. It keeps saying that there's no driver.

I already tryed to dl the drivers from the Toshiba page and put them in the i386\ and i386\$oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC and i've modified the sif file in the templates folder but it just wont work... any help?

Thanks

EDIT: btw, in the original CD of XP there is already a e100b325.sys file so i'm a little more confused :s

[travelcard]

_Ombra_, I am possibly going to stop you from going insane :D

We had this exact same problem for more than 6 months - in the end we just left it thinking it was something we would never be able to solve. About a month ago I found out that there is a known issue with Intel Pro 100 and Intel Pro 1000 cards and RIS on Windows 2003 :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

Microsoft have a hotfix for it, but you can't download it, you have to contact Microsoft to get it. Unfortunately I can't find the link at the moment as I think it's at my office somewhere. I will post more info as soon as I can.

I don't know why Microsoft don't make these fiels freely available, but apparently it will be in the next Service Pack. Therefore it may be worth your while installing the RC1 of SP1 for 2K3. Hopefully that'll make it work.

Best of luck.

[Revenant]

You don't have RIS on a domain controller do you. A buddy of mine did that and I had to smack him.

[travelcard]

You don't have RIS on a domain controller do you.  A buddy of mine did that and I had to smack him.

Well you'll have to smack me too - it's no problem as far as I know.

[The Nonentity]

You don't have RIS on a domain controller do you.  A buddy of mine did that and I had to smack him.

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Reason?

[_Ombra_]

_Ombra_, I am possibly going to stop you from going insane  :D

We had this exact same problem for more than 6 months - in the end we just left it thinking it was something we would never be able to solve. About a month ago I found out that there is a known issue with Intel Pro 100 and Intel Pro 1000 cards and RIS on Windows 2003  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:

Microsoft have a hotfix for it, but you can't download it, you have to contact Microsoft to get it. Unfortunately I can't find the link at the moment as I think it's at my office somewhere. I will post more info as soon as I can.

I don't know why Microsoft don't make these fiels freely available, but apparently it will be in the next Service Pack. Therefore it may be worth your while installing the RC1 of SP1 for 2K3. Hopefully that'll make it work.

Best of luck.

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I'll try the SP1 RC and see if works... this thing is driving me nuts!! :p

Thanks a lot

[_Ombra_]

After searching for a while i found a fix for the text based setup part. There is a special e100b325.inf file on Intel's site. After using this file i get over the text based part but now i get a 0x000000BB stop at the start of the graphic based part of the setup. Sigh... help...

[_Ombra_]

I CAN'T BELIVE IT!!! IT'S WORKING!!! :cry:

So... here is what i did... after 3 painful days:

After i created the Windows XP SP2 image on the disk with the RIS Wizard i had to include the drivers.

The computer is a Toshiba Portege R100 so i went to http://support.toshiba.com and got the driver for the LAN card (an Intel Pro 100 based card).

After 100000 hours of research i found this file on the Intel site that fixes the text based part of the setup. You can download the file here e100b325.exe.

so...

1. Create the "$oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC" folder in the ROOT ("\RemoteInstall\Setup\LANGUAGE\Images\YOURIMAGE\" so at the same level of the i386 folder)

2. Modify the ristndrd.sif file included in the subfolder \Templates\ in the i386 folder with the following part:

[Unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
OemPreinstall = yes
OemPnpDriversPath = Drivers\NIC

3. Extract the driver you downloaded from toshiba to the \NIC\ folder

4. Extract and overwrite the e100b325.inf file in the i386 folder with the file included in the e100b325.exe file you downloaded.

5. Copy e100b325.sys, e100bmsg.dll and intelnic.dll from the toshiba driver over to the i386 folder (overwriting e100b325.sys)

6. Stop and restart the binslvc service (net stop binslvc, net start binslvc)

AND THAT'S IT!!!

Damn... so much time for just 1 computer :p But it's worthit :)

[semaja2.net]

may i ask, what the hell were they thinking when they designed a laptop with no cddrive or floppy drive

[Revenant]

All the new notebooks have no floppy drive, most of them anyway.

[semaja2.net]

yeh i know about the floppy drive my computer doesnt have one but wtf was with no cd drive

[_Ombra_]

I have no idea... the f****d up thing is that you can't even boot with a USB cdrom!! You can only install it if you have the docking station (wich i don't). Anyway, problem solved and that's what counts. :)

BTW, thanks a lot travelcard for pointing me in the right direction. Thanks to your head up i found the .inf file on the intel site.

Edited December 19, 2004 by _Ombra_

[Joel]

You don't have RIS on a domain controller do you.

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Whyever not? It's not like my clients spend all hours of their day re-installing from it.