Problem with RIS installation

[TechyArt]

Hi,

I am trying to install my Compaq Evo D500 through RIS image. I am facing a problem while doing so. It gives an error "The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary drivers for your network adapter. Try selecting a different operating system image. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator."

Please help me..

Best Regards,
Mukul

Best Regards,
Mukul Dutt

 

[Aslamvs]

Hi,

Check out this article from MS

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=247983

HTH


Aslam

 

[TechyArt]

Dear Aslam,

I have updated the BIOS of the Compaq Evo Desktop D500 as per latest BIOS available on the web.

I edited the sif file and copied the drivers file as follows: "$Oem$\$1\Drivers\NIC". Added following lines in Ristndrd.sif file:
[Unattended]
OemPreinstall = yes
OemPnpDriversPath = Drivers\NIC

but still i am getting the same problem.

Please suggest..

Best Regards,
Mukul

Best Regards,
Mukul Dutt

 

[tonyyeb]

Hi Mukul

You have described everything you need to do and you may have done this also but not stated that you have:

open a command prompt on your RIS server and type:

net stop binlsvc

then

net start binlsvc

This tells the binl service to stop and start and thus doing so will re-read all its .sif files for any changed.

hope this helps

Chris Pratt - MCP

 

[TechyArt]

Sorry Chris !

I forgot to mention that. I restarted the services through services.msc but It didn't help.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Best Regards,
Mukul

Best Regards,
Mukul Dutt

 

[tonyyeb]

Are you using a standard windows 2000 ris image?

If so i find that copying the drivers into the system32 directory in the image (basically i shove them anywhere i think windows may look for drivers!).

Make sure you are copying ALL the files needed.

Good luck

Cris Pratt - MCP

 

[TechyArt]

Hi Friends,

I did it successfully. The only thing is, It asks for the License Key. Can I automate this also. So that none of us should enter License Key again and again.

Thanks in Advance.

Best Regards,
Mukul


Best Regards,
Mukul Dutt

 

[ReddLefty]

Look up Article: Q250985 in MS Knowledge Base.



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[Byunk24]

I am also stuck at "The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary drivers for your network adapter. Try selecting a different operating system image. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator."

MukulDutt - what did you do to fix the problem?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Brandon

 

[dtorres]

You need to copy the Network drivers to the i386 directory as well. This is where the machine looks for the drivers during the text base portion of the setup. The $oem$ folder is used when Windows begins its plug and play detection.

I had the exact same issue and when I copied the driver files to the i386 directory of the image it worked just fine. My issue was with a intel 10/100 NIC driver. They also had an update for RIS deployments as well.

A good way to tell what drivers you need to copy to that directory is to go to a machine that already has the drivers installed and look at the device under device manager. It will list all the drivers related to that device.

Hope this helps.....

- D

 

[ReddLefty]

To add to dtorres, only for Intel Pro 10/1000 NIC (any model) do you need to copy both to the I386 folder of your RIS setup AND to your $oem$/$1/Drivers/NIC folder. There are only 7 files needed. All other cards seem to be fine (to my experience):

e1000msg.dll
e1000nt5.cat (I think you can get away without this one)
e1000nt5.din
e1000nt5.inf
e1000nt5.sys
intelnic.dll
PROUnstl.exe






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