That may work for you NOW, but if you have a VERY diverse assortment of hardware, and keep adding drivers, you might run into the character limit for the driver path.
Then your drivers might not get installed at all!
----- Forwarded by Matt Fries/cbca on 02/28/2005 03:25 PM -----
| Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/28/2005 03:20 PM
|
To: Andreas Stowasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Unattended] FIXME: A Way to copy only needed OS-Drivers to local Harddisk |
Andreas Stowasser wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when i was looking for a system to setup the computers at the school of my son in a cheap and easy way, i found your project. I was very lucky, because it solves my problems, even if i do only know a little of Linux and nothing of Perl (sorry, but i�m supporting a lot of Windows Systems)
>
> But after a while i realized that i have to find a way to tell the system , which drivers to use.
> I know the $oem$\$1 mechanism, but i don�t like it, because it would copy tons of files, which i don�t need in the case of having a lot of different drivers.
>
> I looked in your config.pl and only found a FIXME note.
> I think, i have fixed it.
>
> The idea is to have machine-classes,which al need the same set of drivers and copy these drivers into c/drv
> Below you can see what i have changed. May be it could be done better, but it works.
I used an easier way :)
It doesn't really matter if I copy 2 megs of drivers or 25 or 50, even
if I'm gonna use only 2 megs of them, unless I remove all of it right
after the driver was installed.
So I just keep all drivers for all machines in $oem$\$1\Drivers\... -
they are copied to a workstation, and removed from a workstation after
the install is done (it's in install.bat):
rd C:\DRIVERS\ /s /q
and that's it, no hassle of figuring out which set of machines have
which set of drivers! :)
> Next problem is how to tell the system, that i don�t have an NTP-Server, without getting the Question.
just put this line into your unattend.txt file:
ntp_servers = ""
Tomek
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