ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Hi All,my question is regarding the upgrade to xp pro from win2k pro. This upgrade will be deployed over the network. I am still in the testing phase. I have created the answer file and am running the upgrade on test machines. My question is this that when i run upgrade NIC for win2K doesnt upgrade automatically for xp, which is really important as i want my upgrade to be totally automatic and zero physical interaction with the machine. Here is what i do please let me know if i am missing something important.....I created the distribution folder and then created C:\windist\I386\$oem$\$1\Drivers and in Drivers folder i have created two folders named network and video. Then I copied all the files for the specific NIC driver files in network folder and VGA driver files in video folder. I copied these files from windows resource CD.In my answer file unattended section is as follow[unattended]UnattendMode=FullUnattendedNtUpgrade=YesOemSkipEula=YesOemPreinstall=YesOemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\network; Drivers\video"TargetPath=*Upgrade runs fine but am unable to get auto upgrade of both the VGA and NIC. Any help in this will be really appreciated.thanksY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baza23 Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Put this in your winnt.sif file in the [unattended] section.DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 That didnt solve the problem, still i am unable to update the driver through unattended xp upgrade over the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Why upgrading? Why not back-up settings & documents (which is probably already done) and doing a fresh install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Thanks for your reply, Doing a clean installation isnt feasiable for us. We have to deploy the corporate upgrade. We have offices in differnt states and we want to minimize the IT physical interaction with the end users machine. I have also posted one posting in Unattended XP install, that is regarding novell client, i am assuming that this driver update and novell client breaking is related to each other is some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Thanks for your reply, Doing a clean installation isnt feasiable for us. We have to deploy the corporate upgrade. We have offices in differnt states and we want to minimize the IT physical interaction with the end users machine. I have also posted one posting in Unattended XP install, that is regarding novell client, i am assuming that this driver update and novell client breaking is related to each other is some way.I really think that would be easier.How are documents saved of the employees? On a share or on their hdd's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 On their HDDs, but we also have a shared directory on the server for every employ. I can consider this option but if i can get everything auto unattended, i am still in the testing phase and am open for diffrent options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Well, I *do* know about one option: using the devcon utility. I think I've once read that someone accomplished an unattended XP upgrade installation with this. But of course this is only doable when you have system that have quite identical hardware.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 here is the problem we have standard dell systems but we dont have identical hardware it varies to good extent.Well let me tell you what i did upto this point i have tested most of our applications run fine when i upgrade to xp pro sp2. Only main problem i get is with novell client. And that is my very main concern coz once i am able to upgrade and get into the system with bovell client i can think abt running diffrent patches with zenworks. I want to go all the way to end with this upgrade and if i see it is not worth it then i will consider the option of moving the data to network and doing clean installation. Clean installation is the best option but it will be too hard to manage as our employes are spread and we deal with remote users alot, thats why unattended auto installation is the best option we have rightnow.Can you please take a look at my answer file and then suggest me abt the drivers update, coz once i can verify that drivers are updated and i still have novell client breaking problem.......... this will atleast put me in one direction and anyways i have to do the drivers update for diffrent systems.thanks,Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 when you say it doesn't do noth does it do only the nic, video or does that vary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ycam Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 doesnt update either video or NIC these are the only two i am trying for right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 post your answer file, and directory structure for us to take a look at and how are you pushing this to machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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