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by homer simpson instructor at large

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I have installed the RIS component to my 2000 server. I have created a couple of images....works great. I create the remote boot floppy....it works great...it begins to load the Windows 2000 files and at the point of formatting and partitioning the drive it gives me an error saying it cannot complete the task because of either a lack of memory or corrupt windows 2000 files. I have tried it with a couple of different locations, with still no luck...Any ideas?

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by msauer

There can be several reasons, here are a couple; Hardware not according to the Win2k standards (Bios, other hardware specs), The RIS image needs to be correct with the .sif file under the i386\templates directory. Microsoft has some good articles onRIS and using setupmgr (resource kit, the one with Nt2k is not the same as this one) to create an unattended answer file. Be sure to include the Product ID line under the UserData section in the file unless you want to fill that in on each workstation. It needs to have the dashes to work too. If you have used the boot disk and have the process started, it looks like the basics are there.

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