You are the desktop administrator for your company. The company’s network contains a RIS server, a DHCP server, and a DNS server.
You need to install Windows XP Professional on a computer that does not have a CD-ROM drive. The computer has the following configuration:
�a Pentium III 1-GHz processor
�a 5-GB hard disk
�128 MB of RAM
�a modem in the first PCI slot
�an Ethernet card in the last ISA slot
You attempt to install Windows XP Professional on the computer by using a RIS bootable floppy disk. However, you are unable to connect to the RIS server.
What should you do?
A.
Move the Ethernet card to the first ISA slot.
B.
Remove the Ethernet card and replace it with an Ethernet card that is PXE compliant.
C.
Share the RIS image on the RIS server. Create a network bootable floppy disk. Insert the floppy disk, and
install Windows XP Professional from the share.
D.
Place the NDIS network drivers in the root directory of the RIS bootable floppy disk. Use the floppy disk to
connect to the RIS server.
Explanation:
A RIS bootable floppy disk (created using the RBFG.exe utility) does not support ISA network cards; only PCI cards are supported. Therefore, we need to replace the ISA card with a PCI network card.
NOTE:If you start Rbfg.exe and press the Adapter List button, the supported PCI adapters are displayed.
Incorrect Answers:
A: ISA network cards are not supported.
C: You cannot install Windows XP from a network share in this way. You could connect to a copy of the Windows XP installation files on a network share, but not a RIS image.
D: ISA network cards are not supported (even with the right driver).
Press, Redmond, 2002, Chapter 19, Lesson 3