Does anyone use a citrix provisioning server - please help

[nickandcath]

hi

 

at the school where i work we have a citrix provisioning server ( a physical server, not vm) We are very happy with how it was working, now we need to create a new image for the machines. The net manager who was shown how to do this has now left and we are not having much luck.

 

What we have done:

 

Created new virtual disk (in provisioning server console(on server))

Created an image on a computers hdd

Mounted vdisk and formatted

Then i set the v disk to writeable (in the provisioning console)

I then used citrix image builder on the xpmachine, to upload the image

 

It seems to copy the files up ok, so i then switch it to boot from v disk (in the console) and it hangs before the windows xp splash screen.

 

the error is: (just after it has got a pxe boot address from dhcp, i have checked dhcp it is configured properly) remove disks then press any key (or something along those lines.)

 

please help, even a pdf manual telling me would help. as we have no support with this. (previous net man did not purchase any!)

 

thank you

 

nick

[Ric_]

I've not used Provisioning Server myself but you didn't leave any ISOs connected to the virtual CD drive did you? (in particular ones that are no longer available).

[nickandcath]

the client machine which i am trying to pull the image from has no virtual cd drive and no cd in the physical cd drive.

 

it only has a hard disk and a vdisk which you have to tell it which one to boot from in the prov server console. it will not boot off of vdisk.

[Ric_]

Have you checked out the documentation at Citrix Provisioning Server 5.1 - Citrix Knowledge Center