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What files are needed? for example when you kick off a winnt32.exe what files are copied to the drive when is the mbr modified etc

Hi I have a TFTP Server running as a service on a windows 2003 box. This boots to a winpe.iso image from PXE. can you start a winnt install from PXE? instead of loading WINPE? Sorry if this is in the wrong section fell free to move it

Does any one know in depth how the setup process works....... CD or Network install I know how to automate windows installs but I would like to know how it boots what files it uses to boot and then the process i know the GUI timeline so thats ok. was just wondering...

This must be a formating problem then I would try another basic winnt file I assume you are using notepad?

Any luck?????????

why not swap the XP ntdlr for the Vista Beat one version and use the /update hal switch then swap it back. As for your rebooting issues have you used devcon to identify the controller? I really dont know about laptops but i wanted to try and anser your question lol I know its a pain when no one anwsers!

Hi I had the same problem............ Does it happen at the T32 min stage? If so rename your xp autorun to something elese Basically I had a VIDEO driver with a autorun file that started setup.exe man took me weeks to find it! you could adjust your inf file. Info on what stage this happens will solve your problemo!

RIS you say ok maybe......... A what is best to deploy an image of winpe with ADO support and WSH maybe or just an unattended? How long will it take say if I have 500 machines and they are all on 100mb? DFS don't really want to go that route. But I can use SMS2003 so thats not a problem. once PXE booted I need to boot to an image of boot somehow whats best for this? I see the BDD way to do it but everyone seems to go image based deployment. I rather go file based so say that a patch comes out I can just SMS it to all my sites in the distro folder in the svc folder so any new machines will be up to date then all I have to do is send a update out to the machines that do not have it. Some sites I do not control the IP addressing or DHCP I have to provide a mac address for these sites. Is anyone using the BDD?

Guys I would like your input on this scenrio.. How to deploy Windows XP to 250 sites with the biggest site being around 500 and the smallest at 3. Now I have bad bandwidth problems ie between 2mb and 64k between sites. each site has a DC by the way. My enviro is mixed with intel and AMD boxes all HP and DELL. I am currently looking into TFTP which is running fine and I am booting BARTPE Currently on the boxes (yet to intergrate all the NIC drivers and mass storage drivers) I will have to use winpe later (How small could the winpe image be?) I am using winpe at the moment to get me to the 32bit mode and would like to run the mac address against a database for the computer naming. I could go image based but I will have problems maybe with the mass storage device drivers (Maybe run devcon to get that info and inject on the fly) The HAL will be a problem or I could use the NTLDR in VISTA BETA 1 and detect the new HAL (I have been told that VISTA will have only one HAL is this correct?). has anyone had these problems before? what do you think is the best solution? I will add more after the posts start off

Well the way I do it is to drop my theme in the $oem$ folder under $$ resourse and a folder called themes. I then add the entry into the winnt.sif file as ... [shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile=%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\custom.theme this is added after the componets section of the winnt.sif this works for me plain and simple try cutting the name of the theme down so its less than 8 letters :-)

Stupid Question but have you added the KB888111 HD audio patch? before you load the driver? ie SVC ? I use Radia with the Altiris client and we use DC7100 , D530 and DC7600 well all the HP Bussniess desktop ranges and this works fine for us. If you get the same issue I would.... Change the oempnpdrivers path to first install the chipset then graphics and then the sound and Nic. Also on another note are you using HP Drivers? espically for the graphics card? the intel one is much better and supports more chipset variants. Like I say we have like 6 tho of these things and they work fine.

How about you install Advanced Toolbar manually then use it to find the silent install? Seen there are loads of ways to install this I suggest you do some research what installer package does it use? Have you tried the normal Switches? have you tried installing it with VBScript and send keys at the very worst you can use that? I know maybe English is not your first language fine but don't flame people who post here. They take time to help people that means "professional People" Hey by the way well done for spelling professional correctly! On a final note top tip don't insult people if you then turn round and ask for help, which I might add you need :-) gets peoples backs up Ja mate ne!

Thanks for that suggestion it worked perfectly so I checked my drivers folder and in the graphics folder is a setup.exe which a inf file was calling but for some reason it called the setup.exe on the root of the CD Thanks again! Some times its best for someone to look at it again thanks!!

I am using NLITE to create a ISO so that I can test it in VMWARE. if I use the oenpnpdriverspath= "blah blah" the autorun screen pops up like when you insert a xp cd in your puter The one that says "Welcome to Windows XP" "What do you want to do?" if you press exit then it carries on the install fine. If I take out the line oempnpdrivers= then all works fine no screen goes thru all the way ;SetupMgrTag [Data] Autopartition = 1 MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = "Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = "Yes" OemPreinstall = "Yes" OemSkipEula = "Yes" FileSystem = * Repartition="Yes" WaitForReboot = "No" NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\0c;Drivers\0c\0c1;Drivers\0c\0c2;Drivers\0c\0c4;Drivers\0c\0c5;Drivers\1n\1n1;Drivers\1n\1n2;Drivers\1n\1n3;Drivers\1n\1n4;Drivers\1n\1n5;Drivers\1n\1n6;Drivers\2G\2G1;Drivers\2G\2G2;Drivers\2G\2G3;Drivers\3S\3S1;Drivers\3S\3S2;Drivers\3S\3S3;Drivers\3S\3S4;Drivers\3S\3S5;Drivers\4M;Drivers\5k;Drivers\MO;Drivers\7USB" DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore this above part does not work.... ;SetupMgrTag [Data] Autopartition = 1 MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = "Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = "Yes" OemPreinstall = "Yes" OemSkipEula = "Yes" FileSystem = * Repartition="Yes" WaitForReboot = "No" NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore but this one works fine? I have made 50 images trying to get this sorted. I have also tried burning a CD off now and then just in case its a vmware thing but no luck. Any help will be met with thanks. The drivers path is just for HP Base units D500, D510, D530 DC7100 and DC7600 these are the only units I use. But obvisouly I want to able to build a unatteded CD to install on any of these models. Its like it installs some device which makes this screen kick in

Jeff I am using 641 raid cards. I have now completed this and now just need to work on the getting rid of the reboot mbrfix Freezes for some reason so I going to check gdisk32. Any way the porblem was so simple basically if you have /syspart you must use /tempdrive after I added this to my batch file it worked fine.

looking at your diskpart script I would have...... rem This file instructs Diskpart.exe to select Disk 1 as target, rem clean the target, create a primary partition on the disk rem and mount it to c: for the new partition. The new partition is then rem ready for format and OS install rescan select disk=0 clean create partition primary assign letter=c You may need a reboot depending on the drives your using again you may need to use gdisk32 or MBRFix. Format the drive as normal then kick of the winnt32.exe... \win2k3\i386\winnt32.exe /copydir:\win2k3\i386 /unattend:\Win2k3\i386\winnt.sif /syspart:c /tempdrive:c you can also add the /noreboot switch to tell windows not to reboot after the file copy phase finishes I started this an two HP ML310's as I wanted to make sure the raid scsi drives were being configuired properly. Nightmare! just got the get rid of the reboot and then its complete

Chris no this is on ML310 G1 servers I am going to run this through VMWARE tho just to make sure its not drivers etc. I am also going to bug HP and get this sorted its one of there downloads you think they would include a proper readme on how to do it.

Nice what would be the best ever would be wmi requests. Now that would be great I have a vbscript that reads the following.... serial number smbios asset tag mac nic address site name location name video card software version date windows was installed bios version now adding these to your program would be great! stuff the oem.logo! Adding this is great for my support team and I am not restricted to one oeminfo.ini file for my fleet

when you say PXE boot this uses the UNDI Driver does it not? And yes thats weird? so booting barts cd it lodas the driver for you nic ok, but when pushed down from the pxe it does not boot?

Using WMI to detect the HAL doesn't work too well under Windows PE because PE always uses the same HAL regardless of the hardware. How about you use manufacturer and model as you must know the hal status for these?

right ran diskpart checked that its fine. Ran mbrfix listed partitions yep again fine even tells me its a bootable part. looked at the debug4.log yeah everything copys over and that tells me its a bootable. So I am now looking into the txtsetup.sif this is on the root of my C:\Drive Not knowing really how this should look??? it has entries for %cdname% but I have not set that anywhere? so close but so far!

Its in the registry tweaks section HKLM

you can use mbrwiz also. I had this problem and I wrote the MBR to a temp loction then wrote back too the disks after diskpart as I understand it you got to jumpstart the OS into seeing the boot record. to help with debugging add "/debug4:a:\debug4.log" to the end of winnt32. This will tel you if your drive is bootable and all files are being copied properly. I take it your not working with raid disks?

Ahhhhh!!!!!! Its not working! it now gets to copying all files required then reboots and hangs on booting to C: Drive. I have checked Diskpart and checked the boot files being copied accross to the C: Drive I have done a debug.log file and all seems ok, I take it that it should reboot to the booksect.dat... I see someone mentioned the txtsetup.oem I take it that these should refer to the files required to boot my disks?

ok get a program like pci detect and find the vendor and device id take note of it! Next find your broadcom INF file and open it with Notepad look for your Vender and device id within the file is it there? There are many types of broadcom not just one driver ie 5701, 5702 etc.. %BCM5700% = BCM5700.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644 %BCM5700% = BCM5700CX.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644&REV_21 %BCM5700% = BCM5700CX.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644&REV_22 %BCM5701% = BCM5701.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1645 %BCM5702% = BCM5702.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1646 %BCM5702% = BCM5702.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_16A6 %BCM5702FE% = BCM5702FE.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_164d %BCM5703% = BCM5703.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_16A7 %BCM5703% = BCM5703.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1647 %BCM5700FB% = BCM5700FB.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644&SUBSYS_000214e4 %BCM5700FA% = BCM5700FA.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1644&SUBSYS_000314e4 %BCM5701FA% = BCM5701FA.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1645&SUBSYS_000714e4 %BCM5703S% = BCM5703S.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_16A7&SUBSYS_000a14e4 %BCM5703S% = BCM5703S.XpInst, PCI\VEN_14e4&DEV_1647&SUBSYS_000a14e4 This is inf file from the HP Broadcom dc7100 driver when barts scans for the PCI ID it will find the Vendor and device id and look for it within the file once it finds it it then refers to the right driver with the settings in the inf file. Have a look at the barts Modboot or network boot disk where you can download card plugins If I am teaching you to suck eggs Sorry!