cdob Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Have supposedly slipstreamed all the driver packs, but noticed it only slipstreamed the massstorage drivers and just copied the other driver packs to the OEM directoryThat's fine. Continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 ok guys, thanks for all your help so far, but after many hours and five days it's still not happening. DPsbase did add some more mass storage devices to the setup; most notably an ITE IT8xxx ATA RAID controller but mine is and ITE IT8211 ATA ATAPI controller, so I still have to create a virtual disk with grub4dos, which I've successfully done and the setup can now access it. Only trouble is now that setup is asking for a disk labeled RDC D1010 ATA ATAPI Driver Diskette. But a disk label can only be a maximum of 11 chars . Just as an aside, where does setup get this label information from? Anyway, the cd that came with the computer had 3 drivers on, one for the graphics another for the LAN and finally the hard disk driver, so because the hard disk driver worked I assume that the other drivers are also the correct ones, unlike I first thought. Because I'm loading the virtual disk and setup through grub4dos I used method one with DPsBase. At first I tried slipstreaming all the drivers but it came up with a warning that the Oempnpdriverspath entry exceeded the limit of 4096 chars so I just slipstreamed the graphics a, b and c, the lan and massstorage drivers, because the driver disk only had drivers for these three things. Still it didn't work! Finally I tried loading the drivers that came with the computer onto the root of the virtual floppy image, in an attempt to get the setup to realise the corract drivers where available. Still no joy Any help much appreciated and hopefully together we'll crack this nut. I assume this is because this is a very new computer (only got it a week ago). Oh yes also tried integrating the drivers with n-lite but that didn't work either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilko_t Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 What error message Setup crashes with, please provide details, error code, exact moment of the error etc.You should also provide a link to the drivers you integrated with nLite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 No setup does not crash it just comes up requesting this disk. How do I provide a link to the drivers I integrated with n-lte? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 I'll try typing slowly, in an attempt to re-word cdob's initial post :there ... has ... been ... yet ... NO ... successful ...report ...of ... mapping .... a ... virtual ...floppy ...with ...grub4dos ... to ...add ...Mass ...Storage....drivers!It is pointless going over this path, as it will lead you to NOWHERE. (at the most you can have the floppy recognized during TXTmode part, but then it will become unavailable during GUI part of the setup, unless you have found a new, and till now undocumented method to re-hook the virtual floppy image with a "protected mode" driver).50% working is better than 0% , but even if you get to 99,999%, still 0,001 wil be missing to succesfully install. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 ok point taken, but as i say i have successfuly added the hard disk driver with the virtual floppy and setup is still in text mode when it requests this disk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilko_t Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 No setup does not crash it just comes up requesting this disk. How do I provide a link to the drivers I integrated with n-lte?Where did you download them from?If they are on a CD you have, simply zip and upload them to www.datafilehost.com and provide download link.ok point taken, but as i say i have successfuly added the hard disk driver with the virtual floppy and setup is still in text mode when it requests this disk...Simply forget that story about virtual floppy and providing drivers that way, at least until the drivers currently being developed and mentioned above reach some stable stage and their usage tested. Something which won't happen today, tomorrow or next Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 There's got to be some solution to this problem! VMware? I am the newbie. Lead and i shall follow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 There's got to be some solution to this problem! VMware? I am the newbie. Lead and i shall followNO, NOT VMWARE!The only known, working way, at the moment, is to integrate the proper Mass Storage driver in the Source.Usually the Drivers Packs cover almost any hardware.Which "netbook" is it?EXACT model/make, please.POSSIBLY a link to the manufacturer site's page(s) for the model.Also check if by any chance you have a setting in BIOS like "IDE compatibility mode" or "ATAPI emulation" or something like that, or anything however connected to the HD controllerjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilko_t Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 There's got to be some solution to this problem! VMware? I am the newbie. Lead and i shall followWhy do you keep insisting on some "virtual" way of providing drivers?! You have been told already many times- there is no such thing.There are proper solutions to the problem:1) Providing drivers via floppy, that includes USB one.2) Manually integrating the proper drivers into the source:http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/36/3) Integrating the drivers using nLite4) Integrating a bunch of mass storage drivers (BTS driver pack for example) and hoping your hardware is among the supported ones. If not- post to the support forum providing details. Most likely they will be included in the next release and you would also help other guys with the same problem:http://forum.driverpacks.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 uploaded the files that came on the cd. The link is http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fa446a06.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleoseverin Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Ok completely understood. Virtual shinanigans completely dropped. As to the make and model, well there aren't any physical markings apart from the letters QZD and the manual that came with it says M900-7. The display card type is a Z9S 2D graphic accelerator, with a 800 * 480 LCD (TFT) 7" display. The CPU is an RDC PDX600 800MHZ. There's no more I can really tell other than it appears to have come from china. I'll give the dealers a call and see if they can be any more specific, if you want and that helps. Sorry I've annoyed some of you guys. I must admit I am making a meal of this. I'll have a look into the BIOS after I've walked the dog. Cheers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimb Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 (edited) You should have used in DPsBASE the slipstream method2 (default) and only DriverPack Massstorage with TXT Mode Enabled as first approach. Later you can add more DriverPacks.Another approach if you have specific MassStorage Driver:From http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5306TEXTMODE Drivers defined in winnt.sif and located in $OEM$\TEXTMODE folder of the XP Source can be used instead of using F6 floppy for MassStorage Drivers.The content of the $OEM$\TEXTMODE folder is copied by USB_XP_Setup.exe to XP Setup BootFolder $WIN_NT$.~BT\$OEM$See cdob and allanf in http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...5306&st=180 Edited August 31, 2009 by wimb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 (edited) well there aren't any physical markings apart from the letters QZD and the manual that came with it says M900-7.The only M900-7 I can find is this one:http://okfan.en.alibaba.com/product/226517...ailpageLocationbut the specs seem like different. , maybe it's an old model of the same?The RDC site (makers of the HD controller) seems like offline. QZD is another factory in Shenzhen:http://qzd.en.alibaba.com/See if you can spot your laptop among these:http://qzd.en.alibaba.com/productgrouplist...pc_Netbook.htmljaclaz Edited August 31, 2009 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdob Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 The winner is grub4dos, no addional driver required.fujianabc described virtual floppy usage http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ost&p=77011A VMware SCSI example:title Install XP, load VMWARE disk driversmap --mem /VMSCSI.IMG (fd1)map --mem (md)0x6000+800 (fd0)map --hookdd if=(fd1) of=(fd0) count=1chainloader /SETUPLDR.BINVMSCSI.IMG contain files txtsetup.oem and relating files, that's at given example disk.tag, vmscsi.cat,vmscsi.inf and vmscsi.sys. At windwos boot do NOT select F6, setup load the files by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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