kinji5 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Greetings, First time posting, read through the guides on how to create unattended installation and application packaging. I have a couple of questions, hopefully someone could enlighten me. 1. If I wanted to create certain folders in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs" I would need to create $OEM$ ... $Doc in the Unattended Cd correct? I know i skipped a few folders.. 2. for application packaging, why does the files need to be copied to the harddrive to install? Reading the guide it says to put the applications you want the batch files to run in the "install" folder and during the text mode of the XP installation it will copy it to the %systemroot%/.. Install folder . Couldnt' the script run the install from the CD? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delprat Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 1. The files goes to (unsure about $Doc ; it may be $Docs) :CD:\$OEM$\$Doc\All Users\Start Menu\ProgramsDon't forget OemPreinstall=Yes in winnt.sif2. read this page :http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/59/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinji5 Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 1. The files goes to (unsure about $Doc ; it may be $Docs) :CD:\$OEM$\$Doc\All Users\Start Menu\ProgramsDon't forget OemPreinstall=Yes in winnt.sif2. read this page :http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/59/EXCELLENT! Thank You very much for the answers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 The folder that maps to user profiles is $Docs--might save you a few moments of cleanup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinji5 Posted April 4, 2006 Author Share Posted April 4, 2006 The folder that maps to user profiles is $Docs--might save you a few moments of cleanup.Thanks, Got it, one problem with OEMPreInstall = Yes, that means F6 will be un-usuable? wouldnt' that create some problems if mass deployement is used with this cd/dvd ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 wouldnt' that create some problems if mass deployement is used with this cd/dvd ?If some of the machines you deploy to use HDD controllers that are not already part of the Windows driver package then, yes.But you could manually integrate more HDD controller drivers or use nLite to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkillcrazy Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 I have a similar query. I'm making my own MB disk and am creating the $OEM$ folders. I already have a working set of $$ & $1 directories but I'm wanting to drop some things on the desktop via $DOCS\ALL USERS\DESKTOP. This seems easy enough and I make the directories accordingly. However, when I tested the disk, it didn't drop anything on the desktop. I looked around for where the items may have been dropped. I found %systemdrive%\documents and settings\all_users\desktop. For some reason, it's creating another all users folder but uses an underscore to take up the space between the words. Any ideas on how to fix this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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