Testing install on vmware....

[kriggins]

Pardon the stupid quetion, but I have searched the forums and can't find the answer.

I am using VMWare to test my unattended installs with additonal drivers and while this has worked well for making sure the dirvers make it to the system disk, it is not showing me that additional drivers are installed. What vmware drivers do I need to include in my driver pak and how do I need to configure my vmware machine to verify that additonal dirvers are installed?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Pardon the stupid quetion, but I  have searched the forums and can't find the answer.

I am using VMWare to test my unattended installs with additonal drivers and while this has worked well for making sure the dirvers make it to the system disk, it is not showing me that additional drivers are installed.  What vmware drivers do I need to include in my driver pak and how do I need to configure my vmware machine to verify that additonal dirvers are installed?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

VMWare is a system EMULATOR. It ALSO emulates hardware...

So that's why your drivers won't be installed, unless you've included VMWare's drivers too.

Conclusion: you should test on a real pc.... (make a separate partition)

[keul]

Inside your Vmware install directory, you should find a file called windows.iso. Open it (either by mounting it or with winrar) and go in "program files\VMWare\VmWare Tools\Drivers".

All you need is to put those drivers in your unattended cd. If everything went ok, windows should find them and you shouldn't have "unknown devices" in "device manager".

[kriggins]

@Keul

Thank you very much for your reply. Exactly what I needed to know.

Kevin