Alex,
Forgive me if I seem stupid, but can I clarify what
your utility does. Having tried it it seems that it builds the drivers
string for unattend but that you still need to include all the drivers in the
master installation folder. I assume that this is to avoid having HUGE
strings of drivers in unnattend.
Have I
understood correctly?
Many
Thanks
Kevin
Lawry
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From: Alex Magnay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 September 2003 09:14
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Subject: [Unattended] Driver and laptop detection in DOSI think driver and laptop detection in dos would be too complicated to setup and then keep up to date. Where I work we have a PnP drivers directory per PC model (stored as a zip file). Build engineers pick the PC model from a list (enumerated on the fly) before Windows is installed. This way we know throughout the rest of the build the make (eg IBM) and model (eg ThinkpadT20) of PC. The fact that the PC is a desktop or laptop is also determined from this selection. The vendor's PnP drivers for the model (ripped from factory image) are unzipped and environment variables set eg:set make=IBMset model=IBMT20set deskorlap=laptopSent this before but here's our tool for making per model pnp zip files containing make, model and desktop/laptop info for pre Windows install pick list.Your development seems to be headed towards master scripts and subscripts to support organisations with several different configurations of PCs based around a single 'standard'.We have 4 groups of apps/installs- Core apps (for eveyone, eg Office, acrobat reader, winzip)- Department apps (per department, eg Traders, Accounting, IT)- DeskorLap (desktop apps or laptop apps eg VPN client, RAS dialler, Safeboot HD encryption, offline e-mail config)- Vendor apps (make model specific apps and non PnP drivers eg Thinkpad utils, Compaq Management agents, HP keyboard)BTW I think this unattended list is great. I borrow loads of great scripts and ideas from it. Please keep it up!Alex
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