Problem during unattend installation via network (no RIS)

[Christian]

I start to run a unattended w2k installation through my network & first it seems to work fine, but end up with \"Operating system not found\" on the local drive of the \"Client\".

Heres the whole story:
Client HDD is freshly formated (FAT32). I use a network disk (http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/) to automate the start of the w2k-installation (by editing the .bat file on BART\'s network disk; including the paths for the setup-files & the unattend.txt). The setup starts normally  & copies the needed setup-data (to the local client HDD). After that the system restarts automatically, but cant find the OS/setup data to process any further. I tried it a couple of times.

Always after the 1st restart of the setup progress it end up with \"Operating system not found\". I found out that the system always wants to access the floppy drive after it restarted (although the BIOS is set to 1.HDD 2.CD-Rom 3.Floppy).

If i try it without the .bat & unattend.txt files it works fine. I dont understand that!

Is there anything wrong in my unattended file? Or did the system loose the paths to the distribution folder? And why it find it on the manual way?

I hope anyone can help me...

Best regards,
Christian

[Jazkal2]

Can you post your unattend.txt file?

- Jazkal

[Jazkal2]

I got to thinking about it. And the setting I was thinking of woudn't cause this ( I think).

But a corupted Master Boot Record would. Have you cleared the MBR? You need to try something besides fdisk, it's MBR functions don't work (IMHO).

If you can, try something like Gdisk. The command for that would be:

gdisk /mbr /wipe /y

Hope that helps,
- Jazkal

[Rick]

http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':lol:\' /> I'm sure you didn't make your partition activity! You only run FDISK to actvate the first patition and the problem will be solve.