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Bob

I’ve been trying to get ADS working in my virtual environment. I tried your virtual flopppy and still have problems. Are you doing something special when you set up your ADS server. When ever It try to boot to da I get a ramdisk error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

John

Check the size of memory. If Boot Image cannot fit the memory then you will get that error
Since you are doing it in Virtual Environment, it is quit possible you have not enough
memory. Try to assign more Physical Memory for Virtual PC environment. I believe it could
help

Works fine; two vms one running Ent2003 with ADS, the other using pxe floppy.
All running on an old Dell laptop.

Mikey

Well well well, thanks a lot, it works fine…. no problem in install a workstation using RIS… Bye bye WMware..

hello,

i like to have the driver DOS for RBFG.ZIP, please!

3com? or Intel?

breakeradc91 > smc9332/de500 0003FFDAB590 (0003FF known as Connectix) ?

hi
Thanks a lot
I was looking for a simple floppy image for using with vpc2oo4. Suprise, it comes with an issue for the nonpxeinside feature of vcp. Thank you again.

Hey that’s me again.

1. Create your Virtual PC Floppy image
With the Virtual PC Console, select Menu File > Virtual disk wizard
Create new disk (next) > select Virtual floppy (!)

2. You can create this pxe-like floppy yourself
With you RIS server (im using a W2003)
Open \RemoteInstall\Admin\i386\rbfg.exe
This tool is to create a bootdisk for non-pxe hardware. Ensure to select
the SMC9332 network card before creating the floppy.

3. enjoy

4. Please send some feedback here if you find an issue to customize the client keyboard layout at start.

cLee

Any ideas where I can find replacement for my broken CD, 3Com PXE Boot Services? Neither 3Com, Symantec support this any longer. I would like to enable to pxe function of our Symantec Solutions ghost suite,

thanks!

Hi guys,

I took Lee’s directions a couple steps further.

1. After creating the floppies, look for a tool that will read ( rawread?) the floppy and write out a .img file. ( I used a .vfd file from Virtual Server and renamed the extension .img ).
2. Check out and download a copy of UBCD ( Ultimate Boot CD). There are two out there. Grab the one NOT for Windows.
3. Follow the instructions for adding custom/user defined tools and images.

This worked for me on a realtek and 3com Nic without PXE. It did not work for my Linksys LNE100 card.

For what it is worth…

I used to use a CD I labeled “Net Boot V1” about 4 years ago. Googling that title doesn’t get me anywhere today. Too generic. It did come loaded with supported Nics and essentially was a PXE client.

There is also an ISO “out there’ called etherboot that is supposed to be a PXE client. I Haven’t tried it yet, but there you go.

UBCD is a pretty slick thing. All the tools above could be added and that would give you a number of options on one CD.

Good luck

Hi,

using VPC 2005 and just booted using the floppy image.
The process starts then shows this:

Node: 0003FF457228
DHCP..
TFTP
Error: No reply from a TFTP server.
Press a key to reboot system.

I’m using Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller, would that make a difference?

I get a similar problem to Rick, but It finds the PXE and acknowledges to run the job, however
I get error:

TFTP could not be restarted, filename: () Status: (0×3B)
TFTP could not be restarted, filename: () Status: (0×3B)
TFTP could not be restarted, filename: () Status: (0×3B)
TFTP could not be restarted, filename: () Status: (0×3B)

Surely the Broadcom NetXtreme already supports PXE and doesn’t need this disk??
Just go in your BIOS and change the boot order to use the network card first, and maybe
enable PXE boot in the network card hardware settings.

Thank you–works flawlessly with VS 2005 (will move to R2 soon).

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Thanks. Works perfectly on Virtual PC 7 for OS X.

Hi. Am trying to get RIS working with VPCs. I have set up the RIS tools and all appears to be working. However, the machine gets stuck at DHCP “No reply from a server”. Checking the DHCP console and monitoring the traffic shows that an IP address has been allocated. Also the Event log shows that BINL appears to be running. Any ideas?

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