You're right. I was thinking of MSI files, not drivers. DUH!
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Matt:
I just did a complete search of the registry on a Windows XP machine I just installed. I find no reference to the Z:\ directory anywhere but in the install sources for packages I installed after Windows setup finished. Can you point me to where the information you are referring to might be stored? Wouldn't Windows be looking for drivers in the path(s) specified by the OemPnPDriversPath instead of on the Z: drive anyway?
Incidentially, I have been mapping the Z: drive to a server for some time before I started using Unattended so the install share Unattended uses can't be permanetly mapped to the machines anyway.
Steven:
I am actually suggesting doing the SUBST prior to running the WINNT installer for Windows. This way the virtual drive is created before setup tries to copy anything over.
Scott
Steven wrote:
It does still exist
subst <drive> <Path>
but I thought the OEM portion was copied at initial startup so how would this
help with the problem ???
ie how would you get the subst command to work before the OEM portion of the
copying ???
Cheers
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If you install the drivers from a substituted drive, then the install
location gets set to that drive letter in the registry. Then in the future,
if windows needs to install drivers or other components, it will look for
that X: drive (which may be mapped to a server by now).
This might work if, after the installation is done, there is a script to
clean up the registry entries and fix the paths.
BTW: I didn't think that the SUBST command was still around. I thought that
they cancelled it around Windows 95.
Scott Parrill
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10/20/2005 04:45 PM
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
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