XPCreate and SATA problems....

[Codesmith]

Hi all;

I've been playing around with XPCreate for about 6 months now, and while I love it for my older (read: simpler) boxen, I've encountered some difficulties with new boards and SATA.

I've tried to read as many of the forum posts I can, but I didn't find this particular problem.

I've built a XPCreate Home CD with slipstreamed drivers for a SI3112R and VIA 6420 series SATA controllers. I modded my winnt.sif as appropriate, and placed the drivers in the $OEM$\$1\DRIVERS subfolders. I checked the txtsetup.oem files to ensure that they refer to the proper file locations. The creation of the ISO went flawlessly, I tested the ISO in VMWare with good results and then burned a CD and went to the new box.

I'm working on Athlon64 3400+, Asus K8V SE Deluxe - UAYZ, 512MB DDR400, WD2000 Caviar 200GB SATA, MSI 5900XT AGP, LG SuperMulti 16x DVDRW and a Panasonic 1.44Mb 3.5" floppy.

And when I try to install, "No hard drive found". If I try to use a floppy and the F6 method, I get a message stating that the file viaraid.sys cannot be copied.

This is not the first time I've run into a conflict with XPCreate and floppy based drivers. Mind you, I've heard that you cannot use an unattended install with floppy driver installs. At all....

I'm at a bit of a loss here. I'm hoping that it's not something really simple...

Thanx..

Codesmith

PS - Oh yeah... If I replace the drive with a normal IDE drive, the install goes in flawlessly...

Here's my ini and sif files... and a directory listing...

xpcreate.ini

[XPCREATE]BOOTIMGFILE=

CDBURNER=

CDERASE=NO

CDLABEL=XP2HOME

CDSPEED=24

COPYSOURCE=NO

DELISOS=NO

DELROOT=NO

DELTEMP=NO

DLAUTO=NO

DLURL=http://xpcreate.wiretapped.us/HFLISTS

DOCABS=YES

DOCD=NO

DOISO=YES

DOPATH=NO

DOSATA=YES

DOSVCPACK=NO

DRIVERDIR=$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS

EXITQUIET=NO

OVERWRITEOEM=YES

QLOG=

SILENTINSTALL=YES

SLIPHF1=YES

SLIPHF2=YES

SLIPMDC=YES

SLIPSPK=YES

XPISO=XP2HOME_AUTOwSATA.ISO

XPSOURCE=G:

and winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]    AutoPartition=0

    MsDosInitiated="0"

    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

    AutomaticUpdates=Yes

   

[unattended]

    UnattendMode=FullUnattended

    OemSkipEula=Yes

    OemPreinstall=Yes

    UnattendSwitch="yes"

    TargetPath=\WINDOWS

    Repartition=no

    FileSystem=*

    WaitRorReboot="No"

    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

    OemPnPDriversPath="\DRIVERS\SI3112R;\DRIVERS\VT6420"

[GuiUnattended]

    AdminPassword="********"

    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

    OEMSkipRegional=1

    TimeZone=35

    OemSkipWelcome=1

[Display]

    Xresolution=800

    Yresolution=600

[userData]

    ProductKey="*****-*****-*****-*****-*****"

    FullName="User Name"

    OrgName="System"

    ComputerName=*

[TapiLocation]

    CountryCode=107

    Dialing=Tone

    AreaCode=519

[RegionalSettings]

    LanguageGroup=1

    Language=00000409

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=No

    IEBrandingFile=customie6.ins

[Proxy]

    Proxy_Enable=0

    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[identification]

    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[WindowsFirewall]

    Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]

    Mode=0

and a directory listing of my FILESCD directory

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\customie6.ins

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\customie6_config.cab

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\si3112r.cat

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\Si3112r.inf

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\Si3112r.sys

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\SiiSupp.vxd

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\SilSupp.cpl

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\SIWinAcc.sys

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\SI3112R\TxtSetup.oem

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\TXTSETUP.OEM

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\viamraid.cat

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\VIAMRAID.INF

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\viamraid.sys

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\viapdsk.cat

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\viapdsk.sys

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\$OEM$\$1\DRIVERS\VT6420\viapide.inf

D:\xpcreate\FILESCD\I386\winnt.sif

Don't worry about the customie6 stuff.. It has to do with the IE6 Administrators Kit for setting up some custom IE6 stuff... B) It work's just fine...

[Bilou_Gateux]

See here.

try to add reference to your sys driver in dosnet.inf under section [FloppyFiles.2]

and better follow instructions by TBone2

[GreenMachine]

Welcome to MSFN, Codesmith!

Did Bilou's suggestion solve this problem, or are you still in Limbo?