James MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Just got the nerve to start silent XP installs :). Find that I am
> getting a bunch of "Copy Error" "Setup cannot copy the file
> <Something>.dll.

Does it provide an error code?

As M. Bottura suggests, this could be a hardware problem.  It could
also be a permissions problem.

> Not knowing the logic of how Windows decides what to copy from the
> copy medium to the local drive, I am wondering if there is an INF
> file or some area that I should be updating to include these files
> so that they will be copied properly?

It should "just work".

> Also, tried setting up a DELL cd distribution point, but it doesn't
> seem to work like a normal XP install CD... Any pointers on how to
> get it to actually be useable? It has the $OEM$ at the root of the
> CD.

When you install from CD, setup looks for $OEM$ at the root of the CD
instead of inside the i386 directory (nobody knows why).  So when you
copy the CD to the network, that $OEM$ folder will be ignored.

You could move it to live under i386, but there is no guarantee that
the contents will actually do what you want.

What I have been doing for Dells is just copy the i386 folder and
populate $OEM$ myself with the current drivers from Dell's site.  I
lose the Dell custom background and cutesy support tool and so on, but
that does not bother me too much...

 - Pat


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