RAID HighPoint Unattended Install

[gcwhite1]

I would like to first apologise for this post... it seems alot of folks are having issue with this and I have read most of the post here regaurding this but could not find a solution to my problem.

I have a HighPoint RAID controller built into my SOYO FIRE DRAGON MB and I am (obviously) trying to get an ISO distro for XP PRO (w/ SP2 slipstreamed) to complete unattended using XPCREATE. I get to thru the whole thing but I do notice that during the process that XPCREATE cannot find a file and after it completes with the creation of the ISO and I test it out on my VM it gives me this - The file hpt3xx.sys could not be found. Press any key to continue. - And once I do that it cancels the install.

I have also made sure I have the right info in my SIF file because I took a hint from the XPCREATE.CAB file refered to here.

I have included my log file and my SIF file.

[data]

AutomaticUpdates=yes

msdosinitiated="1"

floppyless="1"

AutoPartition="0"

UseSignatures="yes"

InstallDir="\WINXPRO"

EulaComplete="1"

winntupgrade="no"

win9xupgrade="no"

Win32Ver="a280105"

uniqueid="C:\WINDOWS\OEG"

OriSrc="E:\"

OriTyp="5"

[regionalsettings]

Language=00000409

LanguageGroup=13,1

[userdata]

productid="????????????????????????"

productkey="????????????????????????"

FullName="Glenn White"

ComputerName=SLWI1201

[OobeProxy]

Enable=1

Proxy_Server=""

Proxy_Bypass=""

Autoconfig_URL=""

Flags=9

Autodiscovery_Flag=5

[unattended]

OemPreinstall=Yes

UnattendSwitch="yes"

OemPnPDriversPath="\DRIVERS\006_hpt3xx"

FileSystem=*

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[Display]

BitsPerPel=32

Xresolution=1024

Yresolution=768

Vrefresh=60

[shell]

DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

I really appreciate this forum! I would not have gotten this far with out it!

XPCREATE.LOG

[GreenMachine]

Welcome to MSFN, gcwhite1!

It looks to me like the problem is that you have included your SATA/RAID files in the CD source, and not in the FILESCD (in this case, FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\006_hpt3xx) directory. Note that you shold be starting with an unadultered Microsoft CD. Give that a shot, and post back your results.

EDIT:: If you are refering to TXTSETUP.SIF when you say SIF, XPCREATE will edit that file: you should not.

EDIT AGAIN:: Happy Birthday, Old Man!

[gcwhite1]

I did start over, and I did get it completed without issue (atleast on my VM). Howver I had to move my BOOT.ini file over from my old DIR to make it work. Any reason why. XPCREATE would not continue without it.

Again thanks for such a wounderful app and a great forum.

[GreenMachine]

There is a known bug with the BOOTIMGFILE value in XPCREATE.INI that causes this. It'll be fixed next release. I found it was not enough of a show stopper to make a special release.

[gcwhite1]

Thanks.... looking forward to your next version!

[GreenMachine]

A couple weeks of testing (and finishing off the summer), and I will make it public. Until then, I think we have "workarounds" for all the problems so far.