Problem slipstreaming.

[ksukat]

Greetings,

Just acquired a used Dell PowerEdge 1800. It has Windows 2003 Server Standard.

I want to wipe and reload this server. I boot from the windows 2003 server disk

from Dell and it says it doesn't see any disks. I can log into windows 2003 server on

the machine and the disks are fine.

Downloaded the CERC SATA driver for the machine and used nLite 1.4 RC2 to slipstream

the driver into the 2003 Server Install CD and burned a new disk.

boot with the disk and it trundles along, and eventually gives a "can't find any disks" error

and lets you F3 to exit.

I confirmed with Dell this is the correct driver, so what am I missing here ? BTW, the machine

does NOT have a floppy disk drive.

thanks,

D

[Fernando 1]

When you integrate any textmode drivers, you should

a ) uncheck "OemPreinstall" during processing with nLite and

b ) don't hit F6 while installing the OS.

Edited October 30, 2007 by Fernando 1

[nuhi]

ksukat, do you get a textmode popup during insertion of the driver?

Fernando, no need to uncheck OEMPreinstall, that's only needed for the floppy method.

[Fernando 1]

Fernando, no need to uncheck OEMPreinstall, that's only needed for the floppy method.

Thanks for clarifying that. I personally have never unchecked OemPreinstall, when I created a bootable OS CD with integrated textmode drivers, but I have read the advice, to uncheck it, a few times within this forum.

[ksukat]

nuhi,

I don't know what you mean by textmode popup. I just selected tasks Driver and Bootable ISO.

I then in the drivers screen, selected insert tab and single driver. Navigated to folder and selected

aarich.inf. The Storage Device Text Mode Driver MODE is Text Mode. The Text mode integration is

Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Controller.

[Fernando 1]

nuhi,

I don't know what you mean by textmode popup. I just selected tasks Driver and Bootable ISO.

I then in the drivers screen, selected insert tab and single driver. Navigated to folder and selected

aarich.inf. The Storage Device Text Mode Driver MODE is Text Mode. The Text mode integration is

Adaptec Embedded Serial ATA HostRAID Controller.

When you are going to integrate a textmode driver folder content (with a file named TXTSETUP.OEM in the folder), you get a popup with a list of available Controllers and the option to choose the one or more you need.

That is what Nuhi meant.

[nuhi]

ksukat, since you say that the mode is Textmode on the list then you did get a popup. Try selecting all the listed drivers on that list if there is more than one, but only if it's not for another Windows version.

For example if it's

ICH7

ICH8

ICH9

Select all.

If it's:

Sata 2k

Sata XP

Sata 2k3

Then select only the one which is for the Windows version being inserted to.

[ksukat]

OK,

it lists two inf's when I do the textmode (don't know if the dell driver is txt mode or pnp). I add the first driver and when I try to add the 2nd, it says the folder is already queued for integration.

If I use nlite to slipstream the driver, do I also need to manually create txtsetup.oem ???

thanks,

D

[Fernando 1]

it lists two inf's when I do the textmode (don't know if the dell driver is txt mode or pnp).

Textmode (=Controller) drivers have a file named TXTSETUP.OEM. If your driver package doesn't have such file, it is no textmode driver, but a PnP driver.

I add the first driver and when I try to add the 2nd, it says the folder is already queued for integration.

If you integrate a PnP driver, you don't need to add more than one INF file (nLite will copy all the other files automaticly).

If I use nlite to slipstream the driver, do I also need to manually create txtsetup.oem ???

No, either the TXTSETUP.OEM is present (then it's a textmode driver) or not (PnP driver). You can't transform a PnP driver to a textmode one by just creating manually a txtsetup.oem file.

[ksukat]

Thanks Fernando 1, that clarified things.

I did the pnp method, but it still doesn't recognize the hard drive when I try to install

2003.

any other ideas, possible screw ups on my part ?

thanks,

D

[nuhi]

You actually didn't understood my last reply. Textmode list isn't the INF file list, it's the list in the popup. And PNP for sure won't help.

[Fernando 1]

I did the pnp method, but it still doesn't recognize the hard drive when I try to install 2003.

any other ideas, possible screw ups on my part ?

What you need is a real textmode driver (with a TXTSETUP.OEM file included) suitable for the controller where your hard disk drive is connected.

Look into your Dell manual to find the exact name of the controller. Then search for the textmode driver, which will be needed to get Windows 2003 installed onto your Dell.

I have already searched for you and found this site, where you can download a CERC textmode driver suitable for Windows 2003. Check if this is the correct driver for your controller.

After having downloaded the driver package (it is an EXE file) you have to unpack it (by right clicking with WinRar or 7-zip).

Then you can integrate the content of the extracted driver folder as textmode driver into your bootable Windows 2003 CD by using nLite.