I have created an $OEM$ file inside of I386 and it is not being copied over to the hard drive on installation of XP.

What i have is...

I386\$OEM$\$1\install\applications

What I understand is this should create a folder

C:\install\applications

Inside of applications I have all the programs I want to silent install and on my winnt.sif file under guirunonce I call out

%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

It gives me an error because C:\install doesn't exist

But if I copy the folder directly to

C:\install

and then execute start.cmd everything works fine.

Any idea why $OEM$\$1\install is not being copied to the hard drive on installation?

Are you using the folder structure in this web page

$OEM$ Folder structure

You should also read the whole unattended guid,

which that page is a small part of

Edited November 17, 200718 yr by jbm

Well.. same here... I made dozen of recovery CD's for systems at home. Sometimes it's the little stupid mistakes that takes days to find.

Like the latest system I was building a recovery CD for... Took me 4 days to figure out why $OEM$ is not being copied over.

	OemPreinstall=No

make sure it's set to YES in winnt.sif and problem solved

I hope

Edited November 17, 200718 yr by osiris_osiris

I386\$OEM$\$1\install\applications

The reason why it doesn't work, is because you didn't read properly

Your $OEM$ folder should not be in the I386 folder. Both folders need to be next to each other.

Read this again