Jerome Brown wrote:
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From: Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 15:25:36 -0700
To: unattended list <[email protected]>
Subject: [Unattended] Intel NIC not getting installed even with DriverPack
I'm trying to get a stack of Sony Vaio laptops installed via Unatteneded.
This is the first time I've run into the situation where the NIC card
isn't detected after XP boots (I install via the Linux PXE boot, which
works fine).
After reading through some archives, I noticed a post about DriverPacks,
so I got and installed those. It appears that worked correctly (I see
the $OEM$ dirs and such). However, after reinstalling, same deal.
The driver from the DriverPack *does* work if I drop it onto a flash
drive, so this is definately something about the install process.
I'm guessing I'm either not correctly listing the OEMPnPDriversPath or
its not copying or something. I even went so far as to find the file
DriverPack changes and copy that path into my Unattended unattend.txt.
Anyone successfully use the DriverPacks w/ Unattended that might be able
to offer me a clue as to whats up?
Thanks!
Brent
I had the same problem with Driver Packs, as the total length of the OEMPnPPath
was greater than the 1024 character limit for the DOS portion of the setup, as
they are often created for integrating into a CD which has a 4096 character
limit.
I solved it by copying all the drivers into a single folder for each type, so
my Drivers folder has Network, Audio, Video etc folders, and all the drivers
are in that folder. It also helps save on some space, as some files are
duplicated in the driver packs too.
HTH
Jerome Brown
Jerome, did you copy the .7z files to the unattended dir, or the
extracted files from the .7z files?
I've gotten the driver packs to work fine with unattended, with the
minor problem of the filenames being shortend down to 8 letters. Of
course I backed up first. I just slipstreamed it the normal way, then
moved the files from \oem & \$oem$ to the i386\$oem$\1 directory
structure, then modified the install file to rename the files to long
file name. Works fine as far as I can tell.
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