I like your approach because I am installing Win2K to a limited set of hardware with fairly small OS partitions. (The other partitions get erased regularly) We have to install in around 3Gig so the option of copying tons of drivers that are not required is a bit off putting. Ed.
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Stowasser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 9:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Unattended] FIXME: A Way to copy only needed OS-Drivers to local Harddisk *** WARNING *** This mail has originated outside your organization, either from an external partner or the Global Internet. Keep this in mind if you answer this message. 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. Next problem is how to tell the system, that i don�t have an NTP-Server, without getting the Question. Hope it helps, Andy # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- # # Directorystrukture in the OS-Directory # \\NTINSTALL\INSTALL\OS\W2K4PRO +---drv | \---cpdpen (Drivers needed by Compaq Desktop Pro EN) | | \---drv | | +---80861132 ( Video ) | | +---80862445 ( Sound ) | | \---80862449 ( Nic - Intel ) | | \---Windows | | \---Drivers | | \---IA32 | \---other (drivers for some others, here only the nic ) | \---drv | \---80862449 ( Nic - Intel ) | \---Windows | \---Drivers | \---IA32 | \---i386 \--- ........ ( Standard OS-Media, SP 4 integrated ) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- # # Definitions in unattend.txt # "0002A5185E2D","ComputerName","W-EKS006" "0002A5185E2D","OS_media","w2k4pro" "0002A5185E2D","DriverPath","z:\os\w2k4pro\drv\cpdpen" # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- # # Results in the unattend.txt # OemPnPDriversPath = "drv\80861132;drv\80862445;drv\80862449" # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- # # Changes in config.pl # # # Subroutines added ( similar found in the Internet for backing up some files) and a little bit modified # # sub GetFiles { my ($Dir) = @_; my (@Files); opendir(DIR, $Dir); @Files = readdir(DIR); closedir(DIR); return @Files; } sub copydrv { my ($SDir) = shift(@_); my ($DDir) = shift(@_); my (@SFiles, @DFiles, @Dirs, $File); # Get the file lists @SFiles = GetFiles( dos_to_host ("$SDir")); # For each file, possibly copy. # For each directory, save list of directories for later. foreach (sort(@SFiles)) { # Ignore ".", "..", and hidden files next if (/^\./); $File = $_; # If it is a directory, save it for later. # Else, possibly copy now. if (-d dos_to_host ("$SDir\\$File")) { push(@Dirs, $File); } else { copy(dos_to_host ("$SDir\\$File"), dos_to_host ("$DDir\\$File")); } } # Process the directories foreach (sort(@Dirs)) { $File = "$_"; my $FFile = "$SDir\\$File"; if (! -d dos_to_host ("$DDir\\$File")) { mkdir(dos_to_host ("$DDir\\$File"), 0755); } print "Now Copy of $FFile \n"; copydrv("$FFile" ,"$DDir\\$File"); } } # Find all relevant drivers for this machine $u->push_value ('Unattended', 'OemPnPDriversPath', sub { my $os_media = $u->{'_meta'}->{'OS_media'}; defined $os_media or return undef; my $media_obj = Unattend::WinMedia->new ($os_media); defined $media_obj or return undef; my $os_name = $media_obj->name (); my $os_drivers; foreach my $lookup ($u->{'_meta'}->{'macaddr'}, $u->{'UserData'}->{'ComputerName'}, "$os_name", 'Default') { $os_drivers = CONFIG->lookup_value($lookup, 'DriverPath'); defined $os_drivers and last; } defined $os_drivers or return undef; $os_drivers =~ /^All$/i and $os_drivers = $os_media . '\\i386\\$oem$\\$1\\'; $os_drivers =~ /^[a-z]:/i or $os_drivers = $os_media . '\\i386\\$oem$\\$1\\' . $os_drivers; opendir OSDRIVERS, dos_to_host ($os_drivers) or return undef; closedir OSDRIVERS; my @pnp_driver_dirs = $media_obj->oem_pnp_dirs (1, $os_drivers); scalar @pnp_driver_dirs > 0 or return undef; print "...found here some driver directories.\n"; # # # Changes made here, looking if the os_drivers contain a drive-letter # # if ($os_drivers =~ /^[a-z]:/i) { print "\n *******************************************\n"; print "Copy $os_drivers to C:\\drv"; print "\n *******************************************\n"; # Create C:\drv and subdirectories. mkdir dos_to_host ("c:\\drv") or die "FAILED: $^E"; copydrv($os_drivers . 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