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RIS on Win 2K

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by pzhamilton

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I have set up a RIS server in Win 2K. The client machine has no OS installed and the network card is not working on it. When creating the RBFG.exe file on the RIS the list of available drivers does not include the driver for the client. I have the driver disk for NIC but when trying to install, it does not allow it. I have also disabled PNP in the BIOS and still no luck. Is their any way to get the NIC working so it can contact the RIS server and install 2000 Professional. This is for teaching purposes and any help would be appreciated.

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by joseph moore

To connect to a RIS server to install 2000, the client needs to have either 1)PXE-compliant network adapter or 2)the NIC must be one of the following:

*3Com Network Adapters
3c900 (Combo and TP0)
3c900B (Combo, FL, TPC, TP0)
3c905 (T4 and TX)3c905B (Combo, TX, FX)
*AMD Network Adapters
AMD PCNet and Fast PC Net
*Compaq Network Adapters
Netflex 100 (NetIntelligent II)
Netflex 110 (NetIntelligent III)
*Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Network Adapters
DE 450
DE 500
*Hewlett-Packard Network Adapters
HP Deskdirect 10/100 TX
*Intel Corporation Network Adapters
Intel Pro 10+
Intel Pro 100+
Intel Pro 100B (including the E100 series)
*SMC Network Adapters
SMC 8432
SMC 9332
SMC 9432

You can't add drivers to the RBFG-created RIS boot disk. You also can't use a network-aware DOS boot floppy and connect to RIS that way.
This is a limitation of RIS; if you can't connect in one of the two ways it will accept, you are out of luck.

Please read TechNet Article ID: Q242920. It talks about the type of NICs that are valid for RIS, and how RBFG.EXE works.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q242/9/20.ASP
(please remove any spaces)

Sorry. This is not the best of news.

by geoffd72

the answer to this question is not so simple. Mainly on the client side the requirements is that you msut have a NIC card that is pxe.99 or later. and it must be configured in the computer bios to boot to that NIC card. In addition the Bios that ison the NIC card itself must be configured to boot to a remote computer,if you do not have a pxe.99 compliant nic card then you must have have one of the adapters listed in the rbfg.exe utility. otherwise you will not be able to boot to the ris server and get an address.Furthermore there are some server side requirements as well, such as authorizing a ris server to respond to client requests and the requirements for the volume that holds the ris images.hopes this helps . good luck

by lordinfidel

Did you enable the ris server in dhcp to be allowed to authorize requests?

This mistake is normally made and will crash the whole ris process.

DHCP my friend, DHCP.

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