RIS Installation Questions

[RBCC]

I am in the middle of building a RIS installation and need to use networking drivers that come with the system and not on the floppy how do I install these drivers so that the install will see them? John

[Br4tt3]

Networking in RIS: I assumes that u r using a flat image (dunno how it works in riprep...):

1. Check if the manufacturer has some edited version of the associated .inf file that comes with the installation disks, if YES, then use it otherwise use the default .inf file...

2. Copy the driver .sys & the .inf file to the d:\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\<image-name>\i386 directory. This will take care of the 16-bit installation phase, text mode portion

3. Copy the whole driver (all files) to a custom created directory in ur $OEM$\$1\Drv\Nic\<NIC1> structure... this will enable the Windows 32 PnP to be able to scan this directory for the driver in conjuction with the last action...

4. Find ur answer file for the installation (*.sif) and find the entry OEMPnPDriversPath! Add a pending value to this file in the format of: Drv\Nic\<Nic1>;Drv\Nic\<Nic2>;Drv\Nic\<Nic3>. This will point out a valid directory for the setup to scan (#4 & #5 goes together).

Hope it helps...

[RogueSpear]

I don't want to sound like a jerk but seriously man.. there must be, at a minimum, 2 dozen different threads regarding this issue specifically. It's also discussed in the (outdated but still correct) RIS Guide I wrote which is stickied in this forum.