RIS Clients can't pull DHCP address

[oak2278]

Ok, I'm about to pull my hair out on this one if anyone has any new ideas or old ones I haven't tried.

-I installed RIS on one of my DCs.
-Ran RISetup
-AD is set to respond to all client requests.
-I have authorized the RIS server in DHCP, and can see the
1045 event message that verifies that BINLSVC is
authorized.
-I have BOOTP and DHCP enabled on my scopes.
-The RIS server is on the same subnet as the clients so
there is no router.
-I have tried 3 different PCs (GW, Compaq, and Dell) with
the latest pxe rom versions
- We have tons of BOOTP and DHCP devices with valid addresses.

I just dont get it, if anyone has a tips.. please list it

Thanks
Shawn

 

[Zelandakh]

how are you trying to RIS? PXE only or floppy?

Try floppy and manually F12 (or is it F10?). Do you get an error?

 

[oak2278]

This is a PXE install. No, the NIC on the Dells (the PCs we are using RIS to deploy) use a Intel Gigabit Ethernet card that is not supported by the floppy.

 

[hewissa]

You'll need to create an OEM folder under the I386 CD install image.

See:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=246184

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315074

http://web.mit.edu/pismere/draft-documents/remote-installation-faq.html

Hewissa

MCSE, CCNA, CIW

 

[oak2278]

Well 2000 can plug and play my NIC, it just doesnt have the driver for a boot disk.

Regardless, This is never getting into RIS, its just hanging on dhcp address at the very beginning of the process.

 

[oak2278]

This turned out to be caused by FastEnable being disabled for Spanning Tree Protocol on our network switches