sled

All, I have trying to integrate the drivers for a PERC 5/I into my unattended installation, specifically using the txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf files. I do not want to use the [MassStorageDrivers] method, because I want to use this installation on many different kinds of hardware. Here are the changes I added to the end of the txtsetup.sif file (without the dashes of course): -------------- [sCSI] PERC_32 = "DELL PERC5 and PERC6/CERC6 RAID Controller Driver (Server 2003 32 bit)",percsas [sCSI.Load] PERC_32 = percsas.sys, 4 [sourceDisksFiles] percsas.sys = 1,,,,,,3_,4,1 [HardwareIDsDatabase] PCI\VEN_1028&DEV_0015&SUBSYS_1F011028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1028&DEV_0015&SUBSYS_1F021028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1028&DEV_0015&SUBSYS_1F031028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0060&SUBSYS_1F0A1028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0060&SUBSYS_1F0B1028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0060&SUBSYS_1F0C1028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0060&SUBSYS_1F0D1028 = "PERC_32" PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0060&SUBSYS_1F111028 = "PERC_32" -------------- And to the dosnet.inf: -------------- [Files] d1,percsas.sys [FloppyFiles.2] d1,percsas.sys --------------- Finally I compressed the Percsas.sys file to PERCSAS.SY_ using makecab and copied it to the i386 folder of the installation point. No errors are given, but the machine blue screens after the first text mode reboot. To ensure the driver was good, I ran a clean install, pushed F6 at the proper time and fed the diskette. No problems. I plan to use this automated install on many 2950 servers in the future. If anyone else has encountered and hopefully overcame such an issue, please help. Thanks, Sled

Good day all, I am creating a standard for unattended installs of Windows 2003. I want to replace the original installation files for Direct X 8.1 in the I386 folder with their equivalents for version 9.0c. Next will be making the appropriate changes to the svcpack.inf and other files. After that I will need to import the DX9 install settings into the registry. This process was addressed by jdeboeck and mstest in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12252&hl=mtest However, the links in that thread to the completed scripts/cabs by jdeboeck are dead. I think that I could learn alot from his work, so if anyone knows where those scripts/cabs can be found, I would greatly appreciate it. Barring that, I believe I will need to start from scratch. To that end, I downloaded the DX9.0c SDK, and in the redistributable folder are the following cab files: bda.cab - bdant.cab - bdaxp.cab - directx.cab - dxnt.cab - dxupdate.cab Google has told me that directx.cab is for the 9x line, and it seems that dxupdate.cab would not be the one for 2003 specific installations. That leaves: bda.cab - bdant.cab - bdaxp.cab and dxnt.cab. I cannot find any information about the meaning of the bda names. Does anyone know what these files are for? Or, does dxnt.cab hold the needed files and infs to intergrate DX9.0c into the 2003 files? Thanks in advance. I would also like to respectfully state that I am not interested in other methods of installing DirectX. I know that there are many, and that they work quite well. I am trying to learn this process so that I understand those other methods better. Thanks again, Sled

Good day all, Here's my current level of understanding: All explorer customization settings (detail view, toolbar settings, etc) are kept in: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams with subkeys 01, 02, etc corresponding to consecutive folders that have been opened while the 'Remember each folders view settings' is in effect. Also underneath the key above is the subkeys Default and Desktop, which contain the template new folders (01, 02, etc.) are created with. It seems logical that instead of changing each of the numbered folders to suit, one should change the template they are made from. Unfortunately the data in Default and Desktop are in hex, and I have no idea how to decipher them. I went to hivedef.inf but there is no 'streams' entry in that file, let alone 'streams\default.' I checked through all the hive*.inf files and the only entry that seems related (or even exists at all) is the line: HKR,"2030\Execute\1","CommandLine",0x00020000,"%SystemRoot%\system32\shmgrate.exe MergeDesktopAndNormalStreams" in hiveusd.inf-although I don't have any idea what it does. Probably just a red herring. This leaves me with two possible solutions: 1. Find out where the data placed in the streams\default key when the registry is created comes from, and change it there. 2. Decipher the hex data in streams\default, change it to my liking, and merge it later during setup. I'm a bit out of my league with the first solution, and i've been scouring the web for more information about the second. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sled