Network card driver installation in RIS

[Bob Friendly]

I am trying to PXE boot for an RIS installation. It works fine on a VM, but
when I try on any of my other machines, I get an error stating;

"The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary
drivers for your network adapter"

I realize this is due to the fact that the drivers for each network card
cannot be loaded. From deployment documentation, I see that I need the
drivers located in an $OEM$ directory. I have done this, with no luck. Am
I doing something wrong? I log in with an administrator account through the
CIW, so I dont think there can be permission problems.

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This is the folder location, and contents:

D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WinXP\$OEM$\$1\drivers

intelnic.dll
nvcoe.dll
nvenet.cat
nvenet.nvu
nvenet.sys
nvenetxp.inf
nvuenet.exe

This is the reference I have in my risndrd.sif:

[Unattended]
OEMPnPDriversPath=drivers

 

[Guest]

Bob,

Been down this road myself and it took me a good while of sorting through
links that I found that "resolved" this issue and finally found my (working)
answer...but wont make you suffer through all the BS I did and just tell you
what I've found:

Make sure you have copied the .cab, .sys,. inf and any other .DLL that
represents the NICs you are using into the
..\RemoteInstall\Setup\Images\English\[OS]\I386 folder and that should get you
through the initial start of the RIS. After that step, it will be up to your
..SIF file(s) and txtsetup.SIF in the I386 folder as well.

Hope this works for you,

-Bill

 

[Guest]

Sorry,

Should read .CAT instead of .CAB in the I386 folder.

-Bill

Bob,

Been down this road myself and it took me a good while of sorting through
links that I found that "resolved" this issue and finally found my (working)
answer...but wont make you suffer through all the BS I did and just tell you
what I've found:

Make sure you have copied the .cab, .sys,. inf and any other .DLL that
represents the NICs you are using into the
.\RemoteInstall\Setup\Images\English\[OS]\I386 folder and that should get you
through the initial start of the RIS. After that step, it will be up to your
.SIF file(s) and txtsetup.SIF in the I386 folder as well.

Hope this works for you,

-Bill

I am trying to PXE boot for an RIS installation. It works fine on a VM, but
when I try on any of my other machines, I get an error stating;

"The operating system image you selected does not contain the necessary
drivers for your network adapter"

I realize this is due to the fact that the drivers for each network card
cannot be loaded. From deployment documentation, I see that I need the
drivers located in an $OEM$ directory. I have done this, with no luck. Am
I doing something wrong? I log in with an administrator account through the
CIW, so I dont think there can be permission problems.

===============================

This is the folder location, and contents:

D:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\WinXP\$OEM$\$1\drivers

intelnic.dll
nvcoe.dll
nvenet.cat
nvenet.nvu
nvenet.sys
nvenetxp.inf
nvuenet.exe

This is the reference I have in my risndrd.sif:

[Unattended]
OEMPnPDriversPath=drivers