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Using the Remote Installation Preparation wizard - Exercise

Setting up a RIS server

Objective: Set up an RIS server.

Scoring

This exercise is worth a total of 5 points. You will be presented with a troubleshooting scenario, but unlike Problem Solver exercises, you will not submit your response. Instead, you will work offline. Click the Submit Button when you are finished to view the results.
  • The Scenario
    You are installing Windows 2000 Professional using the RIS client Startup disk. Everything seems to be going well until you see a message on the screen that indicates BootP has started, but no DHCP message response from the server has been obtained. The installation cannot proceed at this point.
  • Your task Identify what problems could lead to this message and how you would go about fixing the problem.