OSChooser Skips User

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The user attempts to use Remote OS Installation to install Windows 2000 on his or her computer, and the OSChooser screen does not allow the user to make any entries. Instead, it quickly skips by before the user can make any selections.

Possible Causes:

  • There is only one operating system image, which is automatically selected, and the OSChooser screen only displays momentarily.

  • The user accidentally presses ENTER twice or several times, and the OSChooser accepts the keystrokes in the buffer to mean that the user wants the defaults from the OSChooser screen.

Diagnostic Tests:

To check that there is only a single image for installation

  1. Log on to the server as an administrator.

  2. Click Start , click Programs, and then click Administrative Tools .

  3. Click Active Directory Users and Computers , and navigate to the container with the RIS server. Typically, this is Computers, but it could be Domain Controllers.

  4. Right-click the RIS server, and then click Properties .

  5. click the Remote Install tab, and then click Advanced Settings .

  6. Click the Images tab. You see a list of all the images. If there is only a single image, no OSChooser screen appears.