i'm currently trying to do the following for driver-stuff:
1. only integrate the BTS LAN-driverpack (these are absolutely necessary)
(if i come across probs in the future i might integrate massstorage textmode
drivers too, but havent figured that part out yet :) )
2. rest of the driverpacks goes into z:/drivers
3. then try using this :
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t70209.html
=> all drivers except network drivers remain on network share, which is nice
for old machines with small disks, and saves setup time since not ALL have
to be copied
=> no more problem with limit on length of oempnpdriverpath
hopefully i can report later today that this approach works
Michael
On Nov 14, 2007 5:08 PM, Maurice Libes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Van Damme a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently trying out Unattended. Depending on which PC I try it
> > on, it works nice...
> >
> > My biggest problem up to now has been pre-installing drivers. We have
> > very diverse hardware, and the first system I tried it on (an Asus
> > Pundit PH3, Intel-based) has an elaborate directory structure for the
> > device drivers (totalling 92 directories and subdirectories).
> > Apparently it is necessary to add all these directories to the
> > OemPnPDriverPath (why can't windows setup just copy it all to hard
> > disk, and then seek the correct .inf file in that tree?). I ended up
> > with a totally-unconfigured system with no support for the usb
> > controller, video chip, ethernet,...
> >
> > I also tried generating the OemPnPDriversPath by adding all these
> > subdirs in a string and putting that in unattend.txt (just so
> > Unattended would skip asking which driver folders to add). Didn't seem
> > like a very good idea, the path became pages long and
> > Unattended/Windows Setup mangles the entire directory structure
> > anyway. I would prefer not having to wory about the correct hardware
> > drivers and to just let Windows Setup figure out what drivers to
> > install.
> >
> >
> i don't know if i understand your problem
> but in case of limited string length from OemPnPDriversPath I suggest
> you to use
> the 2nd method proposed by the DPS_base installation program from
> DriverPack
> http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
>
> this method known as Pyron's method can solve this length problem
>
> All the driver are put in 7z format in a C:\OEM directory
> Then this method create a presetup before the Windows setup
> This presetup launch a programm DevPath.exe which scan the OEM directory
> searching for ".inf" driver files, and modify the
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ DevicePath
> register
>
> this method works great and you can have as many drivers as you want
> without problem
>
> with the unattended sourceforge project there is just a hack to do in
> order to make this method functionnal
>
> 1. you have to copy the OEM Directory containing the drivers, into your
> I386 Directory
> 2. then at install time you MUST copy backward the I386\OEM directory to
> C:
>
> i make this copy in the UNATTEND.TXT file here:
> doit_cmds = "Z:;cd Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386;xcopy OEM c:\OEM /Y /E /I;
> winnt /rx:
> lang /s:Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt"
>
>
> hope it can help
>
> > Currently I'm having another test system on my desk which is between
> > its 15th and 16th reboot for installing updates, or so it seems :-)
> > I'd like to draw your attention to C't offline update: a small GPL
> > program written by the dutch computer magazine C't. It produces update
> > cdroms for chosen windows versions and languages of Windows; the
> > updates are installed with MS's update agent, it's got its own system
> > for automatic reboot and recall and support for service pack releases.
> > Maybe it's worth considering to integrate this in Unattended?
> >
> > Some download links in the scripts are dead. This probably because my
> > scripts are outdated - I tried updating them but always got a "no
> > route to host" error to the sourceforge cvs. Pretty annoying. I'll go
> > on without pe windows messenger for now.
> >
> > Then, on the Pundit (after I'd thrown some cruft out of the drivers
> > directory, and removed the OemPnPDriversPath from unattend.txt), about
> > half of the drivers got installed - just not the usb ones and the
> > network. For some reason I just couldn't get the thing to work
> > afterwards too. Weird. I'll try Xp instead of 2000 and let know how it
> > went.
> >
> > Also: the system currently installing is a win2k. I have an
> > unattend.csv which worked nice for the pundit and the windows Xp key,
> > but for this system Unattended still asks me for a product key. Which
> > is weird since the product key is in the database. Or is the key not
> > "Windows 2000 Professional ProductKey"?
> >
> > Another thing I'm a bit (...) concerned about is security. The default
> > settings are guest:guest, so everyone can read unattended.txt and the
> > admin passwords therein. Would it be possibly/easy to remaster the
> > boot disk with some real user and real password?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Maurice Libes
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>
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>
>
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