drivers and display problem

[Darthwobert]

Hi.

I Hope you can help me with this problem.

I've made an unattended installation of XP pro, that seems to work fine, except the following 2 problems:

1) The PnP drivers do not get copied to the HD

2) Display settings are ignored, and it just starts with 640*480

I'm trying to get this working on my other laptop, an IBM T42.

The CD is a XP pro, slipstreamed with SP2.

I'm using winnt.sif method for installing drivers.

I've tried following the instructions from:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1703&page=1

and

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp

Current setting:

The path to network drivers are in C:\Bootcd\Working\I386\$OEM$\$1\drivers\001_network

(just to make sure path is used correctly)

My current Winnt.sif looks like this

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

[Unattended]
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OemPreinstall="Yes"
	OemPnPDriversPath = "drivers\001_network;drivers\002_graphics;drivers\004_sound;drivers\008_modem;drivers\009_biometric" 
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	Repartition = Yes
	UnattendSwitch = Yes

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword="xxx"
	EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
	AutoLogon=Yes
	AutoLogonCount=5
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=105
	OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
	ProductKey=xxx
	FullName="xxx"
	OrgName="xxx"
	ComputerName=*

[Display]
	BitsPerPel = 16
	XResolution = 1024
	YResolution = 768

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
	InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

What I have tried out:

I have also tried using Vrefresh in [display] set to 60 and 75, no difference, it just start up with 640*480

I have tried other names for the driver folders, for instance \drivers\lan instead of drivers\001_network

I have tried with or without " around strings

Currently, I am about to give up. Its probably some dumb mistake, but I just cant find it, and I've spend more than 15 CD's trying to get it to work.

PLEASE help me out here!

Wobert

[dansouza]

I had the same problem. I think that section of the guide left something out, I'm going to try it myself and let you know. I think it's supposed to be "%systemdrive%\Drivers\etc..." instead of just "Drivers\etc..." as the computer needs to know which drive it's supposed to get them from.

[dansouza]

Tried it, it worked fine. I used that method to install some drivers and I used RunOnceEx to install others.