[DeathKnight]

I made a unattended cd.. works fine and all.. but when I try and use it in my new pc with sata controller. I can press F6 and he finds the floppy disk with the drivers.

But after formatting he wants to copy the drivers from the floppy disc to the harddisk and that fails. He just can't seemd to be able to copy the files from my floppy.

But when I use the original cd form windows xp the same procedure works okay without problems.

When I boot anyway a get a BSOD right from the start...

This is my winnt.sif:

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    WaitForReboot=No
    Repartition=Yes
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    UnattendSwitch=Yes

[GuiUnattended]
    OemSkipWelcome=1
    AdminPassword=*
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=110

[UserData]
LET"S NOT DO THAT

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=16
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=Werkgroep

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
    Charmap=off
    Deskpaper=off
    Dialer=off
    Indexsrv_system=off
    Media_utopia=off
    AccessOpt=off
    Media_clips=off
    Msmsgs=off
    Msnexplr=off
    Mousepoint=off
    Templates=off
    Freecell=off
    Hearts=off
    Minesweeper=off
    Pinball=off
    Solitaire=off
    Spider=off
    Zonegames=off

[Shell]
    DefaultThemesOff = Yes
    DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[URL]
    Home_Page=about:blank

[GuiRunOnce]
    %systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

[Aaron]

You can't install Sata/Raid drivers by pressing F6 in an unattended installation. It has to be done differently by integrating the drivers into your CD.

Hope this guide helps: http://greenmachine....ING/addraid.htm

[raskren]

Well, you can do it "sort-of". I've found that if OEMPreinstall=Yes, F6 won't load any driver at all - SCSI, PATA, SATA...nothing.

The best you can do is fill in things like the CD key, language, and network settings, but the contents of the OEM folder won't copy.

Like Aaron said, just integrate your drivers. There are many, many threads here devoted to that very topic.

[RyanVM]

What SATA controller?

[XtremeMaC]

Serial Ata Controller
well i was going to explain but
there u go http://www.serialata.org/

[RyanVM]

XtremeMaC, on Feb 12 2004, 01:50 AM, said:

Serial Ata Controller
well i was going to explain but
there u go http://www.serialata.org/

If you were responding to me, I was asking what SATA controller he had, not what one was

[XtremeMaC]

sorry I read it 3am in the morning, must have seen "what 's sata controller" or something

[RyanVM]

XtremeMaC, on Feb 12 2004, 02:11 PM, said:

sorry I read it 3am in the morning, must have seen "what 's sata controller" or something

Yeah, I had a bit of a WTF look going on there when I first read that

[DeathKnight]

I can intergrate the drivers but I use the unattended cd for a wide range of pc's. So I don't want a pc without the sata controller installing drivers for a device that doesn't exist.

I would just like it the load the drivers in the first setup phase before formatting. I've read some topic now, and all I read about it using rather complex methods and you always have to add it to your winnt.sif. But that would mean he installs it for all pc's wich it don't want.

[Oh_Kay]

As best I understand it..

by including the driver on your Unattended CD/DVD, you don't automatically force Windows to load those drivers and run them...

It will load them during the text setup part, but then it already loads other stuff you may not need as it depends on your hardware setup.. so loading them at this time is of no importance if you don't have the hardware... (and essential if you do)

Once it boots from the HD and starts installing Windows, it won't install the SATA drivers if it doesn't need them, they will however remain part of the Windows Driver Database from that install, and if a SATA drive is ever connected, windows will find and install the drivers for it by it's self.

This doesn't mean they are running or using any system resources if the hardware is not connected, it just means they are stored on the HD in the Windows Folders some place... Windows contains hundreds of drivers you will probably never use, one more won't make any difference..

Anyone attempting a SATA driver as part of their unattended, may also wish to read the post I made some time back...

http://www.MSFN.org/...showtopic=11300

I tried lots of methods, some of which were too complicated to follow, and others which just plain didn't work. That method worked for me and doesn't involve compressing cab files or anything else...

So far I have got it to work on a Gigabyte GA7-N400Pro nVidia2 Mobo with a Silicone Image SATA Controller... And an MSI K8TNeo FIS2R VIA Mobo with a Promise 376/378 SATA Controller and a VIA VT6420/VT8237 SATA Raid Controller.

Im sure GreenMachines method is the proper way to do it, compressing stuff and adding it to the database and all, but I find this method easier personally..

Kay

[Shorty]

Oh_Kay

Any chance you can share the integration of the Promise 378 RAID drivers?

I've been slowly banging my head agaisnt this for days now

I have created an $OEM$/$1/Drivers/Fasttrak and $OEM$/$1/TEXTMODE folders but I have no idea what goes in where

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Shorty, on Feb 23 2004, 03:15 PM, said:

Oh_Kay

Any chance you can share the integration of the Promise 378 RAID drivers?

I've been slowly banging my head agaisnt this for days now

I have created an $OEM$/$1/Drivers/Fasttrak and $OEM$/$1/TEXTMODE folders but I have no idea what goes in where

download it raiddrivers.rar from my mirror.

THE topic about raid/sata/scsi drivers can be found here.

enjoy!

[DeathKnight]

Bâshrat the Sneaky, on Feb 23 2004, 08:29 AM, said:

Shorty, on Feb 23 2004, 03:15 PM, said:

Oh_Kay

Any chance you can share the integration of the Promise 378 RAID drivers?

I've been slowly banging my head agaisnt this for days now

I have created an $OEM$/$1/Drivers/Fasttrak and $OEM$/$1/TEXTMODE folders but I have no idea what goes in where

download it raiddrivers.rar from my mirror.

THE topic about raid/sata/scsi drivers can be found here.

enjoy!

I used those drivers and now XP won't install because of certain errors in txtsetup.sif

First it hangs on those remove statements.. they don't seem to be valid. After removing those I get problems with other added drivers.

Is there any more info beside the supplied txt file. Cause now I have to reuse my backupped setup files.

[RyanVM]

By REMOVE, it means you're supposed to REMOVE those lines from the file (not put them in there with REMOVE in front)

*sigh*