[Unattended] Substuting Windows installation directory

[Scott Parrill]

Has anyone looked at what would be necessary to change in Unattended to have Windows install from a drive letter created with the SUBST command? My idea here is the current configuration of Unattended places the operating system installation files in separate directories in the Z:\OS directory.  So if we put Windows XP Service Pack 2 in a directory called Z:\OS\WinXPsp2 we end up with drivers to be installed during the initial setup in the Z:\OS\WinXPsp2\i386\$OEM$\$1\drivers directory which is 34 characters long.  If the drivers extract into a directory structure that is very deep, we quickly run into problems where we reach the 64 character file name limit.  (Ok, we can eliminate 6 characters by calling the directory d instead of drivers but it is a much less descriptive name.) However, I think we could eliminate some of the overall length of the file name, with its full path, by using the SUBST command to redirect the Z:\OS\WinXPsp2 or the Z:\OS\WinXPsp2\i386 directory (I can't recall at the moment if the second option will work) to another drive letter, such as X: and then install from that location.  As a result we would eliminate either 12 or 16 characters from the path name and hopefully have less conflict when we install new drivers into the $OEM$ directories. I do know that the $$Rename.txt could potentially be used to help overcome this problem as well but my experience in getting the $$Rename.txt file to do what I expect has been less than successful. I would appreciate people's comments on this. Scott -- Scott Parrill | When the legends die, the dreams end. Area Technology & Communications Manager | When the dreams end, there is no more greatness. Wyoming GISciences Center | University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY 82071 |                                 When the Legends Die PH: (307)766-2524 FAX: (307)766-2744 |                                 Hal Bowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info