Problems Deploying XP with SP2 integrated using RIS from MSDN DVD

[Guest]

Hi there

I'm trying to use our volume license MSDN copy of Windows XP on DVD which
has SP2 integrated to create a RIS image. I can create the RIS image fine,
and on a workstation i can select the new image from the Client Installation
Wizard, but at the step where it formats the drive, it comes up with this
error:-

Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows on this computer. To
continue, setup needs to verify that you qualify for this upgrade product.
Please insert your Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4 Workstation, Windows 2000
Professional, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows Millenium CD into your
CD-ROM drive.

When the CD is in the drive, press ENTER.

To quit setup, press F3.

Any idea why it thinks it's an "upgrade product"? I can copy our XP1 image
and slipstream SP2 into it I suppose but I thought it would be easier to just
create an image from the MSDN version that's already slipstreamed.

 

[WM]

Note that "volume license" and "MSDN copy" are mutually exclusive. There is
no such thing as MSDN media distributed under a volume license. Volume
licenses use volume media, MSDN provides it's own MSDN installation media
(there is also OEM and retail). Retail and Volume media are the only types
of installation media supported for use with RIS, and I know for a fact that
RIS has had problems with MSDN media in the past. Do you experience the same
problem using actual volume media or retail media?

 

[Guest]

Hi WM

Thanks for your reply. I managed to get this working - instead of adding
the image directly from the DVD, I tried burning the ISO image of XP with SP2
to CD which comes on the DVD as well. I then used riprep create the image
using the CD i burnt.

Its definitely a volume license version that's on the DVD. It seems to be
working. However, I now have another problem. It seems to have broken my
2000 image on the same RIS server. We are about to upgrade our 500+ clients
to XP, but we still need the 2000 image to work to be able to re-install
machines if we need to before the upgrade. Very early in the text mode part
of installation i get a BSOD with a stop error:-

0x000000BB An initialization failure occurred when attempting to boot from
the network.

Some websites point to network card drivers but this shouldn't be the case
as the image has been working 100% for a few years until now.

Any ideas?

 

[WM]

You should contact Microsoft - the 0x000000BB is, if I recall, a known
problem with a fix.

 

[Guest]

I managed to find a solution - its a problem with the Intel Pro 100 VE
network card drivers. I downloaded a special .inf file that is specifically
for RIS from Intel:-

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scr...0&strOSs=19&OSFullName=Windows* 2000&lang=eng

Added the inf file into the i386 folder of my image, removed all other e100x
driver files (inf, sys, pnf etc) and restarted BINLSVC service. No more
bluescreen.