Recovery Console question

[David Sherman]

Is there a way to install the "recovery Console" from Windows 2003
Server" on a Windows XP, Service pack 2 machine that doesn't have
Internet access?

Or is there a Microsoft site where I can download all the recovery
console files in one installer from Microsoft?

thanks

 

[Vanguard]

Is there a way to install the "recovery Console" from Windows 2003
Server" on a Windows XP, Service pack 2 machine that doesn't have
Internet access?

Or is there a Microsoft site where I can download all the recovery
console files in one installer from Microsoft?

thanks

Okay, I'll bite with the obvious answer. Insert the install CD for
Windows XP and run:

<d>:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons

where <d> is the drive letter for your CD-ROM drive. However, if the
install CD for Windows XP is for a version earlier than the service pack
level of your current install, you will need to create a slipstreamed
version of your install CD that incorporates the same service pack level
(i.e., don't install the Recovery Console from a Windows XP SP-1 install
CD on a host running Windows XP SP-2 until you slipstream SP-2 into a
copy of your Windows XP SP-1 install CD).

 

[David Sherman]

If you run the command, it downloads files from the internet.

So I how I install the recovery console on a machine that doesn't have
internet connection?

 

[Vanguard]

If you run the command, it downloads files from the internet.

So I how I install the recovery console on a machine that doesn't have
internet connection?

Reread my reply. I said insert the CD-ROM and run the program from
there. Has nothing to do with the Internet. It never makes an Internet
connection. You don't need to be connected to run the program.

Sure, don't believe. Don't believe Microsoft, either
(http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307654).

 

[David Sherman]

If I put the CD in, which I have done, menu on screen states
"downloading files".

 

[Vanguard]

If I put the CD in, which I have done, menu on screen states
"downloading files".

Is this a LEGAL copy of Windows? Since the install works on an
unconnected machine, it obviously completes without getting to download
anything. Is it maybe some specialized CD to perform a network install
of Windows? Which CD are you talking about? The Windows 2003 Server or
the Windows XP compact disk? I've installed Windows XP Pro on a minimum
of 50 hosts and never saw it trying to "download" anything, especially
since none of them were even connected at the time I did the install.

Is the CD bootable? It should be if it is a legal copy. You can run
the Recovery Console from there.

 

[David Sherman]

When you install the recovery console via d:\i386\winnt32.exe
/cmdcons, you get a screen that ask you if you want to continue as it
takes about 7 megs. Then you get a screen that states"

Connecting to Microsoft

Downloading Software

Updating setup

If you are not connected to teh internet, you get a screen that states
you ware not connected - try again or skip and install Windows.

Thus I ask again, is there a way to bypass this?

thanks

 

[David Candy]

Setup does indeed download crap if you let it.

 

[Vanguard]

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
Setup does indeed download crap if you let it.

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Is this a LEGAL copy of Windows? Since the install works on an
unconnected machine, it obviously completes without getting to
download
anything. Is it maybe some specialized CD to perform a network
install
of Windows? Which CD are you talking about? The Windows 2003 Server
or
the Windows XP compact disk? I've installed Windows XP Pro on a
minimum
of 50 hosts and never saw it trying to "download" anything, especially
since none of them were even connected at the time I did the install.

Is the CD bootable? It should be if it is a legal copy. You can run
the Recovery Console from there.

But, in this case, you are not running setup.exe. You are running
winnt32.exe to copy the .dat boot sector program, update bootini, and
copy the files under the cmdcons subdirectory. If this were installing
anything from the Internet then why does the user have to use a
slipstreamed version of the Windows XP SP-1 install CD to install the
Recovery Console into a Windows XP SP-2 installation?

However, it is a surprise that the setup.exe will do any downloads from
the Internet, but then I've always setup a new install on unconnected
hosts, make sure there is a firewall in place, and then connected to do
the updates. I've only done 3 installs while connected and don't
remember seeing a "downloading" prompt. Any clues as to when during the
fresh install when running setup.exe that it tries to do these
downloads, and what it is trying to download? You sure this isn't
*after* the install has completed and when Windows itself then gets
loaded on a reboot which it then asks to do some downloading (as a
consequence of the Automatic Update service being enabled by default)?

 

[Vanguard]

When you install the recovery console via d:\i386\winnt32.exe
/cmdcons, you get a screen that ask you if you want to continue as it
takes about 7 megs. Then you get a screen that states"

Connecting to Microsoft

Downloading Software

Updating setup

If you are not connected to teh internet, you get a screen that states
you ware not connected - try again or skip and install Windows.

Thus I ask again, is there a way to bypass this?

thanks

At what service pack level is your installed copy of Windows XP?
Service Pack 2? At what service pack level is your installation CD for
Windows XP? Service Pack 1? You will need to create a slipstreamed
version of your installation CD that incorporates service pack 2 so the
install of the Recovery Console doesn't need to get the updated files
(since you updated them in your slipstreamed copy of the Windows XP
installation CD).

I haven't ran into this because I either installed the Recovery Console
before any service packs were installed, or by using a slipstreamed
version of my installation CD that was at the same service pack level as
the installation of Windows XP into which I was attempting to
incorporate the Recovery Console. My guess is that you are using an
installation CD that is at a service pack prior to your Windows
installation and Microsoft decided to rescue you (and prevent you
installing an old version) by offering to download the updated files.
That's just a guess. I usually install the Recovery Console right after
the Windows install but before any updates are deployed (i.e., the
Recovery Console installed is the same version as the install that was
performed from the same installation CD). Twice I had to install the
Recovery Console afterward and Windows XP was at a later service pack
level, but then I used a slipstreamed version of the installation CD. I
don't remember getting stopped by a "downloading" prompt or a refusal to
continue had I chosen to bypass the offered downloads.

I don't see why any downloading would be needed if you were attempting
to install the Recovery Console at the same service pack level of the
instance of Windows XP into which you were attempting to incorporate it.
But, hey, Microsoft could do something stupid like this and I've been
lucky so far.

 

[David Sherman]

If the Service pack is 2, which it is, the command winnt32.exe
/cmdcons must be done with a Windows 2003 server disk.

I agree that the recovery Console should be done while the machine is
at Service pack 1 level.

Yes I use http://www.xpcreate.com to create an install CD and have
used autostreamer : http://www.autopatcher.com/autostreamer.html
to create slipstream CD's.

If you have Virtual PC or VMware, try to install the recovery console
"while disconnected" from the internet.