I had this problem with some older Thinkpads. Turned out I was using the
driver for a different NIC, so the driver never loaded. $oem$ does not
work if you use the wrong driver !
John
Matthew J. Harmon wrote:
> I'm running into one big hump in my unattended install and can't seem to
> get past it, when I do the initial windows install (very smooth btw!)
> when my system comes back up (Dell Latitude 800) it has no networking,
> so the rest of the install cannot continue. I've tried adding drivers
> into $oem$/$1 and it doesn't seem to be installing them.
>
> Any other tricks I can try? This is the last really big hump I've got
> and then I'll have a fully automated/unattended install and I can go
> onto other projects :)
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give!
> I have had the same problems with some very new notebooks. Using the
> $oem$/$1 mechanism definitely is the right way, so you should
> concentrate on this.
> Are the driver files copied to the hard disk? How does your
> c:\netinst\unattend.txt look after installation? Is variable
> OEMPnPDriversPath included? Keep in mind: everything under $oem$/$1 must
> be MS-DOS-compliant (8+3 convention).
> HTH
John A. Edmiston
Information Systems Analyst
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