RIS Driver Error

[Joe]

Hey all,

Here goes, RIS Server on one of my Dell Servers, Dell
clients connect nicely, I get to the Installation
Selection screen, pick the one I want, it says 'OK' then
warns about format, 'hit enter to continue', so far so
good. Then it starts the windows installation and first
thing I see is:

"This image dosn´t contain a driver for the nic..."

!!! Uhm ok, what the hell, its already connected?!? Am
I lost, its already got the friggin driver loaded!!!

So I am assuming its the switch in the .sif file (the
install oem driver yes or no switch in [unattended]),
first guess was its trying to install that. Took it out
completely. Still having problems.

Its all Dell stuff, the client is a Dell 1750 and the
server is a 2650. Though the AD is running on a 2000
machine and I have been having god awful problems in that
aspect. That would be the only weak link in the thing
though.

Joe

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

The installation method begins by using PXE (transfering about 6 MBs
of data) and then switches to the SMB protocol.

If the driver and the .inf file are not available, you receive the
error message you are having

See this article

How to Add a Third-Party OEM Network Adapter to an RIS Installation
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=315279

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net