I have created an $OEM$ directory under FILESCD. Inside $OEM$ I have the directories $1 and $$. It is my understanding that anything inside the $1 directory will get copied to the root of the installation drive during installation and that anything inside the $$ directory gets copied to the Windows folder.

I have created the structure and added the files I want included. When I create the cd the $OEM$ directory is copied to the cd. But when I perform an installation the files inside the $OEM$ directory do not get copied to the hard drive.

What am I doing wrong?

The $OEM$ folder is NOT created in the new partition, only "Program Files" & "Windows".

Thanks for the reply. I realized after your post that I didn't phrase the question accurately. What I meant is that the files within $OEM$ are not being copied. For instance there is a $OEM$\$1\drivers directory. After installation there should be a C:\drivers directory, but it didn't get copied.

Very strange! Is $OEM$ at the root of your CD? (i.e. at the same level of I386)

Yes, $OEM$ seems to get copied to the CD correctly (at the CD root) . I can even install the drivers from the CD after the install. They just don't get copied to the HD.

Check that you have the following line in Winnt.sif

Don't you enter a space before $OEM$?
Sorry for this question, but there is no stupid question
When there is a such problem, all questions are allowed

@Gagorian: I'm sure you found the solution

Thanks Gagorian, that was it.

Jeeez, you guys are fast!

Welcome to MSFN, janc!

I'm kind of having the same problem,
My folders aren't copied too. OemPreinstall=Yes is inside my winnt.sif
I'm trying to install via XPlode, but it doesn't seem to work because of my folders aren't being copied.
Anybody thinks he knows the problem ?
thx in advance!
jeroen.

EDIT: Believe it or not, but it does work now :-S, I didn't change anything, only retried in VMWare. No need for searching anymore ;-)
thx :-)

Well this fixed my problem. I was doing everything I could think of (iso settings, double checking filenames, etc). This did it (setting the option to "Yes")