Hello all, I am new to all of this hotfix patching etc, and so far I have had pretty good luck getting my XP disc running. I am stumped right now though. I need to have the installation copy a folder called install and all of it's files to the root of the system drive during the install.

I have tried making the $OEM$ folder with the $1 subfolder and a subfolder in there called Install and the files are under that. When the install completes however, the install directory never gets copied to the hard drive. I have tried placing the $OEM$ folder in the i386 folder and in the root of the CD with no luck. Am I missing something? I have some addons like IE7 etc that I want installed when the user logs in for the first time.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks for reading!

You need to add

OemPreinstall=Yes

to your sif file under the [unattended] section.

If you do this I think\not sure that the F6 option to load RAID\SATA drivers during setup is unavailable. I have mine slipstreamed so I don't need that option.

From ref.chm

OemPreinstall

Specifies whether Setup installs its files from distribution folders.

Syntax OemPreinstall = Yes | No

Values Yes

Setup copies the subfolders and files contained in the \platform\$oem$ folder.

No

Setup does not copy these files.

Example OemPreinstall = Yes

Comments Note

If OemPreinstall = Yes, do not set NTUpgrade to Yes.

If OemPreinstall = Yes, unattended Setup automatically stops at the Welcome page. To avoid this pause in your factory environment, set OEMSkipWelcome to 1. Do not distribute any computer with OEMSkipWelcome = 1. Instead, set OEMSkipWelcome to 0 in the Sysprep.inf file you use before delivering the computer to the customer.