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clean Installation of W2K on computer with no OS
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| Hi,
1) I have no OS on my computer. How can we install Win 2000 Pro unattendedly?
2) If I have only MS-DOS istalled on my computer, How can we install Win 2000 Pro
unattendedly, while I have not installed my network card driver?
Are there any way to install the network driver by an MS-DOS command? If so, how?
P.S.: I know the command line:
winnt /s:.... /u:unattended.txt
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| asadi 2003-07-09, 10:16 pm |
| Thank you for the links mrfixit.....
I am still confusing... let me tell you what exactly I want...
Suppose that I have 20 computers on the company, each one has one disk containing 2
partitions, I want to install ONLY w2k on each of them as soon as passable. Without any other OS.
Note that these computers are not PXE Boot Rom and don't have network card that support PXE. (they have D-Link network adapter card). So I can't and don’t want to install thru RIS.
It is very clear that I should install W2K thru network here. But what should I do before that? I mean, these computers don’t have any OS and I don't have network card installed on each of them. Should we have to install MS-DOS on each computer to install network card (before installing W2K)? (I don't know how to install network card while we have only MS-DOS.)
Is there any way to install w2k thru network without installing MS-DOS or any other OS on each computer?
Thanks in advance
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| You'd need to create a network bootdisk. This is the one I use:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
Here is a list of additional NIC drivers, there are several DLink models specified.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/#niclist
So in essence, you are on the right track, but you do not need to install the complete MS-DOS operating system. All you need to do is create a network bootdisk (hopefully each system has the same type of NIC so you only have to create one type of network bootdisk and then just make some copies of that one.) If not, you'll need to create a seperate network bootdisk for each different type of NIC on your client systems.
Then connect to the Windows 2000 network share distribution point you created and run WINNT.exe
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| Boulware5 2003-07-09, 11:17 pm |
| Can also use the network client admin program on NT Server to create a network aware bootdisk if that's available to you. | |
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| Hi Spid,
Many thanks for your reply. It was of great help.
I have the following D-Link adaptor:
"D-Link DFE-538TX".
But I couldn't find an adapter plug-in in the list.
Which one I should use instead, if possible?
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| I'd go with the D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 Fast/Eth v5.390 drivers listed on the page. I searched around and found some driver info on that NIC, the DLKRTS.DOS file looks to be the same.
Obviously, you might have to play around and try to find one that works. I have never used D-Link NICs before, so I do not know if a 530 driver will work with a 538 NIC, What's interesting is that if you do a search on D-Links website, they make no mention of a DFE-538TX NIC even though you get plenty of hits when you do a google search on the DFE-538TX.
Best of luck. | |
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| Spid, thanks a lot for this great link, I used “D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 Fast/Eth v5.390” network adapter plug-in.
It was very COOL. |
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