Hi

I'm quite new at this and have trouble getting some drivers installed.

I want to be able to use a nonmodified Windows CD, a floppy with winnt.sif and some drivers.

I have a driver package (WinRAR) which are uncompressed during setup to C:\drivers\. The files are extracted without any problems. But they are not installed.

This is my winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutomaticUpdates=yes
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    DUDisable = Yes 
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    OemPnPDriversPath="%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Drivers\Chipset;%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Drivers\Lan"
    NonDriverSigningPolicy = "Ignore"
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    Repartition=No
    UnattendSwitch="yes"
    WaitForReboot="No"
    AutoActivate = No
    ProgramFilesDir="C:\Programmer"
    CommonProgramFilesDir="C:\Programmer\Common Files"
    Hibernation = No
    Filesystem = LeaveAlone

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword="***********"
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    AutoLogon = Yes
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=105
    OemSkipWelcome=1
    ProfilesDir="%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Documents and Settings\"
    DetachedProgram="a:\Drivers.exe"

[UserData]
    ProductKey=*****-*****-*****-*****-*****
    FullName="***** *****"
    OrgName="********"
    ComputerName=Pentium4

[Display]
    BitsPerPel = 24
    Vrefresh = 75
    Xresolution = 1024
    Yresolution = 768

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=45

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=Arbejdsgruppe

[Components]
    AccessOpt = On
    .....
    Zonegames = Off

[Shell]
    DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes
    DefaultThemesOff = Yes

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]
    Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]
    INFID=*

[NetClients]
    MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
    MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]
    MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
    DNS=No
    UseDomainNameDevolution=No
    EnableLMHosts=Yes
    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
    SpecificTo=Adapter1
    DHCP=No
    IPAddress=192.168.1.11
    SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
    DefaultGateway=192.168.1.1
    DNSServerSearchOrder=193.162.153.164,194.239.134.83
    WINS=No
    NetBIOSOptions=0

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[URL]
    Home_Page=http://www.newz.dk
    Search_Page=http://www.google.com
    
[GuiRunOnce]
    Command0=a:\RunOnce.bat

If it is of any help. The system i want to install on is a 875 chipset.

Edited September 3, 200520 yr by THXTEX

Any idea of what I might being doing wrong?

@THXTEX:

try removing %SYSTEMDRIVE% from the OemPnPDriversPath entry. i believe it should look as follows:

[Unattended]
   OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Chipset;Drivers\Lan"

are those drivers WHQL certified?

are those drivers WHQL certified?  

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I can install them afterwards without any warning, so they must be.

I have tried yout other suggestion with removeing %SYSTEMDRIVE%, but it doesn't work.

Is there a log I could look in to see if tries to install my drivers?

Edited September 11, 200520 yr by THXTEX

@THXTEX:

if your drivers come with a .CAT file they should be WHQL.

check setupapi.log in your WINDOWS folder see if you can find the device or the .INF you are trying to install.

I can see in the log, that it can not find any drivers that are compatible. I think that it does not look in C:/Drivers/XXX where my drivers are installed at all.

perhaps your drivers are being extracted after GUI-mode setup detects and installs your devices.

Still no succes in my case.

I have tried a different approach now. I still extract my drivers using DetachedProgram and they are still a WinRAR sfx-archive. But in the SFX comment's I have added Pyron's SetDevicePath command.

;The comment below contains SFX script commands

Path=%systemdrive%\OEM
SavePath
Silent=2
Overwrite=1
Setup=SetDevicePath.exe %SYSTEMDRIVE%\OEM\Drivers

In setupapi.log I now see that setup looks in my driverfolder, but it comes with the following message.

In danish....

#I393 Cachen "C:\OEM\Drivers\Chipset\SP\INFCACHE.1" til INF-filer er ændret.
#I393 Cachen "C:\OEM\Drivers\Chipset\INFCACHE.1" til INF-filer er ændret.
#I393 Cachen "C:\OEM\Drivers\Lan\INFCACHE.1" til INF-filer er ændret.

Transladet to english it is something like.....

#I393 Cache "C:\OEM\Drivers\Chipset\SP\INFCACHE.1" for INF-files has changed.
#I393 Cache "C:\OEM\Drivers\Chipset\INFCACHE.1" for INF-files has changed.
#I393 Cache "C:\OEM\Drivers\Lan\INFCACHE.1" for INF-files has changed.

The INFCACHE files are not a part of the archive.

Any suggestions to what I could try now?

TIA