Provisioning Non-English Windows OS Image Fails (6400419)

Description: If you try to provision a Windows OS image for a language other than English, the installation fails. This failure occurs because by default, the Microsoft RIS service looks for the English OSChooser files. An error that is similar to the following message is displayed.

The system cannot find the path specified.

  An error occurred on the server. Please notify your administrator.
  E:\RemoteInstall\OSChooser\English\LOGIN.OSC

Workaround: Choose one of the following workarounds.

• Modify the OSChooser files. Follow these steps.

  1. Edit the multilng.osc file to list the language for the image as the first entry in the file.

  2. In the multilng.osc file, add the following line before the <TITLE> tag.

     <META ACTION=AUTOENTER>

  3. Copy the multilng.osc to the welcome.osc file in the same directory.

  4. Edit the \OSChooser\language\welcome.osc to include the following text line before the <TITLE> tag.

     <META ACTION=AUTOENTER>

• Copy the OSChooser files from the non-English language directory to the English directory.

  % cd RemoteInstall\OSChooser % copy -r Language English