I have the following structure:

$OEM$

$OEM$\$1

$OEM$\$1\install

$OEM$\$1\drivers

$OEM$\$$

$OEM$\$$\system32

$OEM$\$Progs

Everything get copied fine to the system except for the $Progs directory. Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks!

Hi,

In my case it is even worse, nothing from the $OEM$ dir gets copied to %systemdrive%

Hope someone has an idea.

Greetz Aldero

@aldero

You need to have the following line in your winnt.sif file:

[Unattended] 
OemPreinstall=Yes

@hossm

Do you use windows 2000?

In windows 2000 either $docs or $Progs didn't work (I can't remember which on )

Yes, I am using Win 2000. I'm actually using RIS (on Win 2000 Server) and the image is Win 2000 as well. I used FileMon on the server and saw that the setup actually does look at the folder in the $Progs directory, and reads each file but then deletes them and doesn't copy them over. Everything else, it reads and copies over!

Windows 2000 doesn't support either $Prog and $Docs are they tied to OOBE for copying over.

Thanks for the info Alanoll!

Now when you say Win 2000 doesn't support either one, do you mean if I had RIS running on Win 2003, then it would be supported? Or is it the image (Win 2000) that doesn't support it?

RIS basically runs the Setup of the OS wanting to be installed correct? It's the setup of the OS that determines what is copied. Windows 2000 doesn't support this.

That makes sense.

Thanks again for all your help

i use WinXP i have OemPreinstall=yes and still it doesn't copy anything...

any suggestions ?

thx for not answering i found out myself so i will remember the mistake better