NiteWatchman

Thank you. I will try that out.

First, I want to thank y'all for this forum. I have been searching, and studing these posts for the last 2-months. I have learned a lot about unattended installs. I now have a nice install disk, or at least a good start. I have the drivers installing, and hotfixes installing, and I have a few reg tweaks. It is all VERY cool! However, I have not been able to find all of the reg tweaks that I am looking for, and some of the tweaks that I have found, don't really do what I was hoping for. So I thought I would ask this question. Do any of y'all know of a program that will take a "snap shot" of the windows registry, then allow me to make changes to windows in the GUI, take another "snap shot," then compare the two for whatever registry entries where changed? Then I could copy those reg edits into my reg tweaks that runs on the unattended disk. If there is a way to do this, or a program that does this, please let me know. That would be a huge help.

Has anyone experience with installing a printer connected to a mini print server? I have a Canon S600 usb printer on my network connected to a Netgear PS121 mini print server. For a normal printer server, I would imagine the [GuiRunOnce] Command0="rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\SERVER_NAME\PRINTER_NAME" would probably work. Since this is not a normal print server, this line comes back with a null printer driver error. I have been trying to get one of the other switches for this command to point back to %systemdrive%\Drivers\008_Printer\s600.inf So far, nothing I have tried works. Any ideas? I am not even sure if this command works with a mini print server. Maybe I need to install the Netgear print server utility software first? If that is the case, how would you go about silently adding a printer calling their software? Or maybe I am thinking of this backwards, and need to install the printer software first, then run the rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\SERVER_NAME\PRINTER_NAME command in a .bat file?

Woo Hoo! It worked! Once I finally found the .inf file and put it in the \$OEM$\$1\Drivers path, windows found it and installed the modem driver. VERY cool. What was throwing me off on this was the fact that the temp folder wasn't there to get these files. At the end of the "normal" install process, the setup would delete the folder when you abswer YES or NO to the reboot now question. OK with that step accomplished....on to bigger and better stuff (reg edits). Thanks again.

Thank you for responding. Yes, I read that page. I tried to do the .iss file suggestions, but I found no .iss file in c:\windows. (yes, I ran th command line with the -R switch) I did find an inf file. I am working on a few ideas to see what works. I did notice that the setup copies temp files to c:\windows\temp. There it creates a modemxp folder with .sys files and one inf. The setup deletes that folder when you answer YES or NO on the question of would you like to reboot now. So I copied those files to $OEM$\$1\Drivers\003_modem and see if that does anything. I am burning to a CDRW @ 4x, so it will take about 30-40 minutes before I will know if that works.

Hello all, I am a newbie to the whole unattened install. The MSFN site is VERY cool and has helped me to understand this process. Anyway, enough praises. I slipstreamed SP2 and made an unattended CD without problem. I am using my laptop as the test victim. (Sony VIAO PCG FX-120) This laptop is old enough that Win XP seems to find most of the drivers, except the modem. I went to Sony's site and downloded the latest driver. It is a self extacting archive file. I used WinRAR to extract, but it is a setup.exe, and a couple of .cab files, etc. Driver Download I don't know how y'all find all of this information on quiet installs, but I am looking for a way to add this to my unattened install. This is probably an easy one for y'all, but like I said, I am a newbie. I appreciate ANY help. Thank you.