help with 2003 upgrades

[tully214]

We have around 900 boxes in the field that we need to upgrade to windows 2003. All boxes are windows 2000. I need to have this in a fashion that our clients do not have to make many selections. Also none of these boxes have a floppy drive.

I have created a cd with nlite and added what I needed. The only drivers I really need to add are the broadcom com drivers. Here is a copy of my winnt.sif file. I launch the install from windows by using winnt32 /unattended:winnt.sif

; Generated by nLite 1.4 RC2

[Data]

Autopartition=0

MsDosInitiated=0

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

NtUpgrade="Yes"

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

UnattendSwitch="No"

OemPreinstall="No"

OemSkipEula="Yes"

FileSystem=*

WaitForReboot="No"

NoWaitAfterTextMode=1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Nic

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

TimeZone=020

OEMSkipRegional=1

OemSkipWelcome=1

[LicenseFilePrintData]

AutoMode=PerSeat

[Components]

[userData]

ProductKey="xxx-xxxxx...."

ComputerName=*

FullName="ghx"

[RegionalSettings]

SystemLocale="0409"

UserLocale="0409"

UserLocale_DefaultUser="0409"

InputLocale="0409:00000409"

InputLocale_DefaultUser="0409:00000409"

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents="No"

[NetClients]

MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]

MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

MS_PSched=params.MS_PSched

[NetProtocols]

MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]

When I run the upgrade everything works correctly, but the broadcom driver install. I have learned I cannot use oempreinstall with winnt32 unattended upgrade. Will the upgrade try and install the broadcom drivers since oempreinstall is set to no? Is there a way I missing to automate the broadcom driver install. Any help would be appreciated since after the 25 tries I have gone thru I am a little frustrated.

Thanks

Tyler Gish

Edited November 13, 2007 by tully214

[Stoic Joker]

Try copying the driver files to the (Wizard's default search location) C:\WINNT\INF then the wizard should just "find" them on its own during the upgrade.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

We have around 900 boxes in the field that we need to upgrade to windows 2003. All boxes are windows 2000. I need to have this in a fashion that our clients do not have to make many selections. Also none of these boxes have a floppy drive.

nLite is NOT for business or commercial use... Read the EULA contained in the nLite installation Dir. You need to try hfslip or one of the other alternatives.