RIPREP Image does not appear on RIS menu

[Kenneth Belferman]

Hello:

I'm running RIS on 2003 Server. I created a RIPrep image of an XP install.
All seemed to go well. The files exist on the RIS server in the Remote
Install directory and when I go to AD Users and Computers and get Properties
on the RIS server, the XP image is in the list of images. However, when I
boot a client computer to RIS, the XP image does not appear in the list of
OSs.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Thanks in advance for replies.

 

[Mark Parter]

I've experienced this "probelm" myself. On closer
inspection, it turned out I had so many images that they
went of the screen on the install wizard, I was able to
get to them by using the down arrow.

If you've only got a few images though then this is
obviously not your problem.

 

[NIC Student]

Hi Ken,

There are two usual culprits for that scenario:

1. The user does not have permission to view the *.SIF file for that image.

2. Article 289638:

Valid RIS Image Is Not Displayed in Installation Choices
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289638