tarquel Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Hi allMainly @ GM though...Regarding the $OEM$ folder, in order for windows setup to sucessfully use the $OEM$ folder, I read on some MS OEM article that the $OEM$ folder must reside within the i386 directory.Don't ask me where this is because I haven't got a clue, but in order for i.e. populating the windows installation with company information or OEM related items and when using the Setup Manager program of the XP OEM OPK, i'm sure it placed it within the i386 folder.Could this be why I couldn't get the VIA SATA drivers to be recognised/installed automatically when installing the customised XP CD I created with XPCREATE a few months back? (I still had to press F5 no matter how I tried changing things...even rewriting the driver inf to some degree didn't help)Any thoughts?Regards,N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 $oem$ dir should be at the same level as i386 dir not inside it!also i believe u're to press f6 to integrate drivers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daywalker03 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 If you put a compressed copy of the SATA/RAID driver in the I386 directory, you shouldn't need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberdiamond Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 $OEM$ Should be in the root directory for cd install and in i386 for network install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMachine Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Most points to cyberdiamond! $OEM$ should be placed as FILESCD\$OEM$ for a CD install, and FILESCD\I386\$OEM$ for a network install. This results in <CDROOT>:\$OEM$ and <CDROOT>:\I386\$OEM$, respectivly.If you used the latter structure, this would result in SATA integration problems, as the SATA drivers are searched for in FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS. This will be remedied very soon ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarquel Posted April 21, 2004 Author Share Posted April 21, 2004 I think most points to GM then Thanks for clearing that one up for me - didn't realise it was different for the CD install.One question though...If you used the latter structure, this would result in SATA integration problems, as the SATA drivers are searched for in FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS. This will be remedied very soon ...Does that mean that even if used FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\BACKUP\DRIVERS\VT8237, it would still work or do I have to put them all in the same folder? Not nice to manage this is Regards,N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenMachine Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 At the moment, you MUST place your SATA drivers in, or below, FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS in order for integration to succeed. Next XPCREATE update will fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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