* arboreal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-30 02:54]: > I hadn't thought of that. Good point. I've heard reports that copying > drivers into one directory can work, and I guess that might be one reason > why it works. Unfortunately, it seems to me that it would not be a general > solution for the Bashrat DriverPack directories since some of them contain > files with identical names. I think that the script used by ubcd4win to integrate the BTS driverpacks does something like this. It copies them all to the system32\drivers directory and renames some of them, it might also modify some .inf files. This doesn't seem the best solution, since it may have to be updated when the driverpacks are updated (eg. extra duplicate files are added), but it would give you one huge directory that can be used for OemPnPDriversPath.
> >The second seems to be the easiest solution [...] but the disadvantage > >is that you have to run the BTS cmd file (from BTS_base) for each > >Windows installation (on a Windows box), instead of just symlinking > >yhe D directory. > >I have not tested this in combination with unattended yet, I believe it > >also modified winnt.sif to install some auxiliary software for the > >drivers, this should be done via todo.pl in unattended. > > To be honest, I don't yet grok the Unattended system and I'm not sure how > all those parts work and interact. I'm hoping that the BTS cmd file might > be run via todo.pl as part of postinst.bat, and that the winnt.sif can be > modified as part of a "preparation" phase maybe? I haven't studied the BTS driverpacks slipstream method in detail, but I believe it consists of: - Compress the driverpacks and put them in the install folder - Modify certain files so the driverpacks are unpacked in the textmode setup (exact details depend on which method you use) - Modify winnt.sif/some other file I can't remember so a certain cmd script is run after the installation. This could be run via todo.pl in unattended. This is all done by the scripts from the BTS base archive, they have to be run for each OS directory since they modify the system files. I don't know if these modifications conflict with Unattended in any way, since they are meant for burning CD's (i.e. winnt32.exe method). Trying this is on my todo list, but so are ten other things, so I don't know when I'll find the time to do this. Alson ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
