$OEM$ Distribution Folders and VMWare

[dr_pr0phet]

Firstly, the information i have found throughout these forums and in guides has been brilliant, i have had no experience of building an unattended install disc before.

I have managed to get all the drivers etc in the right places to enable my SATA drive to be picked up The operating system and answer-file work correctly. I am using the RunOnceEx approach to install third party apps/programs. Instead of burning to disc each time i make a change, I am using VMWorkstation to test my installers.

The first time i ran the .iso from from the virtual drive all went well until the RunOnceEX, all the apps to install showed up in the GUI but i had an error for each app in turn - the apps couldn't be found to be installed. RunOnceEx was looking to C:\install\ for the apps and my distribution folder path for my apps is $OEM$\$1\install\.

Does anyone know if i missed anything out anywhere to copy the files over as they should for install?

Do distribution folders work as they should in VMWare?

Thanks in advance.....

[ner]

H,

You need to ensure that you have this within your

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch=Yes

WaitForReboot=No

install will then place your programs in the c:\install folder

[dr_pr0phet]

H,

You need to ensure that you have this within your

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch=Yes

WaitForReboot=No

install will then place your programs in the c:\install folder

DOH, my OemPreinstall was set to NO

Thanks a lot bro

[dr_pr0phet]

After i changed that entry in the winnt.sif file i keep getting this, i haven't changed anything else in any other files. I have change the entries back to the way they were and still i get this error message.

Is the manufacturers file referring to winnt.sif? or another file?

This is the error i receive:

[ner]

how are you installing the sata drivers and can you post your winnt.sif file?

this is my file

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

AutomaticUpdates=yes

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch=Yes

WaitForReboot=No

Keyboardlayout="United Kingdom"

OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000_intel_INF;Drivers\001_Intel_LAN;Drivers\002_Intel_WLAN;Drivers\003_Nvidia;Drivers\004_Monitor;Drivers\005_HP_Media;Drivers\006_SATA_RAID"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

FullName=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

OrgName=""

ComputerName=xxxxx

[Display]

BitsPerPel=32

Xresolution=1440

YResolution=900

Vrefresh=60

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=44

Dialing=Tone

AreaCode=XXXXX

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

Language=00000809

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]

msmsgs=off

msnexplr=off

Edited March 4, 2009 by ner

[dr_pr0phet]

I am installing SATA driver by editing TXTSETUP.SIF and my WINNT.SIF files as explained in the driver section of the forum.

Here's my file:

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

AutomaticUpdates=yes

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch=Yes

WaitForReboot=No

Keyboardlayout="United Kingdom"

OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000;Drivers\000\1;Drivers\000\A;Drivers\000\B;Drivers\000\C;Drivers\000\D;Drivers\000\E;Drivers\000\F;Drivers\000\G;Drivers\000\H;Drivers\000\I;Drivers\000\J;Drivers\000\K;Drivers\000\L;Drivers\000\M;Drivers\000\N;Drivers\001\A;Drivers\001\B;Drivers\001\C;Drivers\001\D;Drivers\001\E;Drivers\001\F;Drivers\001\G;Drivers\001\H;Drivers\001\I;Drivers\001\J;Drivers\001\K;Drivers\001\L;Drivers\001\M;Drivers\001\N;Drivers\001\O;Drivers\001\P;Drivers\001\Q;Drivers\001\R;Drivers\001\S;Drivers\001\T;Drivers\001\U;Drivers\001\V;Drivers\002\A;Drivers\002\B;Drivers\002\C;Drivers\002\D;Drivers\003\A;Drivers\003\B;Drivers\003\C;Drivers\003\D;Drivers\006\A;Drivers\006\B;Drivers\006\C;Drivers\006\D"

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=xxxxxxxxxxxx

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

FullName=xxxxxxxxxxxx

OrgName=xxxxxxxxxxxxx

ComputerName=xxxxxxxxxxx

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

SystemLocale=00000809

UserLocale=00000809

InputLocale=0809:00000809

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

Home_Page=www.google.co.uk

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[dr_pr0phet]

The above error only occurs when i change OemPreinstall= to Yes. It works fine when left as "No".

Any ideas?

[ner]

\ok, if you search and using the fault message given "the manufacturer provided file that setup is trying to use is corrupted", you will see that this is common with SATA & Raid controller errors, post your TXTSETUP.SIF Files..

I just added tis to the end of the file...

[sourceDisksFiles]

iaStor.sys = 100,,,,,,3_,4,1,,,1,4

[HardwareIdsDatabase]

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27C3&CC_0104 = "iaStor"

[sCSI.load]

iaStor = iaStor.sys,4

[scsi]

iaStor = "Intel® 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"

[dr_pr0phet]

ners,

Thankyou very much for your help. i have finally got it sorted.

I used your example of adding the text to the end of my txtsetup.sif file instead of adding it within the file, i don't know what difference it made but its worked.

I used exactly the same text as before just added it to the end of the file...........

I'm now plugging slowly through adding my prefered apps which seems to be going really well so far.

Rgds

pr0phet

[ner]

Good news - I am pleased for you - lets us all know how you do!