Trouble with RIPREP

[Randy Teachout]

I am trying to develop an image using RIPREP that I can
use with RIServer to deploy onto PCs in our lab. I have
successfully set up the RIS server and am deploying CD-
based images, but am having trouble with RIPREP. The RIS
server is a Windows 2000 server and I am trying to
develop Windows XPSP1A images. I get all the way to the
end of the image creation process and get a number of
errors as follows:
1. "The system could not find message text for message
number 0x%1 in the message file for %2"
2. "STARTROM.COM - The specified file path is invalid"
3. "NTDETECT.COM - The specified file path is invalid"
4. "NTDLR - The specified file path is invalid"
5. "RISTNDRD - The specified file path is invalid"
I have noticed that these files are all in the Templates
folder for each cd-based image that I have created, but
that doesn't help with the error.
Anyway, after I get the errors, the pc reboots as it
should, but no image is uploaded to the RIServer. Can
anyone help?

 

[NIC Student]

Hi Randy,

When you created your WinXP SP1a cd-based image, did you create the image on
the RIS Server by running RISETUP *after* the cd-based i386 was
slipstreamed? You must slipstream first, then create the cd-based image on
the RIS server.

Generally, the procedure is
1. Create a flat of Windows XP cd on the hard drive (the i386 folder),
2. Download the latest service pack and extract it.
3. Slipstream the flat image with the service pack.
4. Click Start>Run>RISETUP and create a cd-based service pack RIS image.
5. RIS a workstation.
6. Customize the workstation (avoid updating the file NTOSKRNL.EXE with your
patches)
7. Run RIPREP on the workstation.

Try verifying your RIS Server:

On the RIS server: Start>Run>RISETUP -CHECK (ok)

Did that turn up any errors?

When does the error occur? During file copy from the client to the RIS
Server?

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE


"Randy Teachout"