Jose Diaz wrote:
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Well, that was fixed in 2.8 and should still be fixed in 3.0. If not,
I would like to hear about it...
Yes, I know the connection problem was fixed in 2.8 (I'm a frequent
visitor to your page). It's just that I did not find the time to
upgrade yet and that's probably a good thing because we will have a
better framework when we do.
Also, what about using BIOS/WMI machine information for
automatically installing drivers? Or detecting if a machine is
Desktop or Laptop to decide if an action should be performed?
This is tricky to do from DOS. WMI is out. But scanning for PCI
devices and/or SMBIOS data is possible in principle. It basically
amounts to porting the Linux "lspci" and/or "dmidecode" utilities to
the DJGPP environment. That would be a neat contribution if anybody
feels like some serious hacking.
As an alternative, I have read that Bart's boot disk does automatic
network card detection. However that works, it could presumably be
generalized beyond network hardware to let Unattended include all the
right drivers automatically.
I tested Bart's network boot disk In fact, I tweaked it to work with
unattended, but there is
a major issue I have been unable to correct: the documented problem
where the XP installer
stalls after starting copying files. Yes, I read the MS KB Article, and
as far as I see, smartdrv
is started with no parameters
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;296814).
I 'll take a look again when I get a chance.
Bart's disk uses his pciscan utility (see http://www.nu2.nu/utils/
and
http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=pciscan110.zip).
Other source of
PCI information and
utilities for DOS is Craig Hart's PCI Programs web page
( http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm
).
Also, I would not rule out WMI completely. What if in the main script
we just start a Drivers.bat
that will use WMI to install the drivers in protected mode?
Some needed clarifications here: The network driver must be detected
and set in real mode.
For protected mode I'm thinking about other devices. Also this can take
advantage of the
fact that most manufaturers these days are shipping drivers with
install utilities that usually
can run in unattended mode...
Rgds, Jose
- Pat
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