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Windows Server Forum / Windows NT / Setup / March 2005Floppyless install NT 4.0
I have a new server and want to Install NT4.0 as a BDC in preparation of upgrading teh domain to W2K3 AD. The new server does NOT have a floppy drive and the ServeRaid controller is not in the Retail copy of NT server. I have created a 1.99GB partition and formatted it with MS DOS 6.22 (SCSI BIOS enabled). I have copied the i386 folder to the drive and have downloaded the NT4.0 driver for the controller and copied it to the $OEM$ folder as per the instructions for unattended installation mode. I then run c:\i386\winnt.exe /b /u:c:\unattend.txt which copies the uncompressed files to $WIN_NT$.~LS and the boot files to $WIN_NT$.~bt and restarts the server. The error message is "cant locate txtsetup.oem". I followed the article on creating the unattended.txt file and the have copied the OEM files as instructed but no go. Does anyone have instruction to install NT4.0 in a diskless enviroment using an IBM ServeRAID controller? DAD56 > I have a new server and want to Install NT4.0 as a BDC in preparation > of upgrading teh domain to W2K3 AD. The new server does NOT have a [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > DAD56 I don't have an answer - I'm just wondering why people go to such effort. Surely there is a floppy drive in an old machine that could be temporarily connected, or one could spend $10 and get a new one? Or, if the budget allows, get a USB floppy drive? The server is an IBM X336 and doesn't have a floppy controller or physical space on board for it. Do you have a USB driver for DOS that NT 4.0 setup will use? DAD56 > > I have a new server and want to Install NT4.0 as a BDC in preparation > > of upgrading teh domain to W2K3 AD. The new server does NOT have a [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > temporarily connected, or one could spend $10 and get a new one? Or, if > the budget allows, get a USB floppy drive? > The server is an IBM X336 and doesn't have a floppy controller or > physical space on board for it. Do you have a USB driver for DOS that > NT 4.0 setup will use? > DAD56 Most newer machines that I have seen will see a USB floppy and boot from it without any extra drivers. Usually this is turned on in the BIOS via a setting called something like "legacy USB support". Since a USB floppy drive is usually available as an option when you buy an IBM X336, I assume that it knows how to use one. Thanks, I already tried that using an IBM USB floppy drive. The text mode NT 4 setup process doesn't recognize the USB floppy is the problem and a diskette is required to load the new SCSI driver. I got the unattended mode install to work, had to move the folders around until it ran but the server blue screened on the driver install. We are going to use another machine as the upgrade machine and install W2K3 on the floppyless box, promote it to a DC and then move the roles to it. We have done this several times successfully but it causes problems as the NT servers still in production require multiple reboots when the PDC changes in the domain. We have three NT 4.0 domains on this network that have domain trusts established and are in the process of upgrading them. We had four and upgraded one successfully already. We found through testing that the easiest upgrade method was to use the IP of the current PDC as the IP of the upgrade machine as it only requires one change in the LMHOSTS file of the NT 4.0 servers currently in production and hence one reboot. The W2K machines react properly to a WINS change but the NT 4 servers don’t. When you have 28 server in two server farms in a 24/7 environment multiple reboots are not easily accomplished. Thanks for the help. DAD56 > > The server is an IBM X336 and doesn't have a floppy controller > or [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > you buy > an IBM X336, I assume that it knows how to use one. |
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