Need your help with a Remote Installation gone bad...

taterhawk2380

ok i'm studying up for the XP exam using the MOC, and i've got to the chapter on installation. I saw the option for an unattended installation so i tried in the lab at school. My teacher is running Windows Server 2003 and i'm running XP Pro, i used setup manager to create the unattend.txt file, mapped a drive to the i386 share on the server and ran the winnt32 command with the correct paths. My instructor looked over it as well and all paths are correct, but for some reason it says Network Path Not found, like it cannot locate the files even though the paths are correct. what should i try. i partitioned and formatted 5 gig of space on my current hard drive and even ran the winnt32 deal from inside there and it will just not work. any feedback would be very cool. thanks!!

BJG

Hey,

I could be on the wrong track here but I know when I tried the same thing in a lab last year it was a BOIS setting that was the problem.

The NIC's were PXE enabled but the setting in the BIOS was tuning the setting off.

You also may want to check http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prbc_cai_facb.asp
Good Luck

taterhawk2380

thank you very much for the reply. i appreciate it i'm gonna check out that site and my bios settings and see how it goes.