How to include Dell 2950 RAID Drivers on Windows 2003 SP1 CD

[Hersch]

The Problem:

1) I have to install 10 Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers with Windows 2003 SP1.

2) The 2950s do not have a floppy and the USB Floppy Emulation fails half way through the setup, leaving me to scratch my head. Even an attached USB Floppy fails to be detected properly, hence RAID Drivers cannot be loaded.

3) These servers also have the new SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives and the LSI Logic SAS 5i RAID Controller.

Required Solution:

1) How to include the LSI Logic SAS PERC 5i RAID drivers on the W2K3 SP1 CD so that I can install these servers. I have the Original Installation Media

2) Since I am new to this, please explain in simple steps how to modify the Installation CD and the Folder Structure needed to install the RAID drivers automatically. I believe that I may have to create a $OEM$ folder, but I dont know at which directory level this must be done.

3) Any other related help that will ease this for me is also very welcome.

Thanks in Advance to all the Learned Members of this Forum!

[Hersch]

Problem solved! Thanks to nLite! What a wonderful tool it is.

My grateful thanks to the Author of this fantastic program.

[chockl]

Hi Hersch,

I am trying to install Microsoft Windows 2003 (32 bit) on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and am having the same issues with the PERC 5i controller drivers. How did you rectify it with nlite? Can you please let me know?

Thanks a bunch for your time and help in advance,

Chockl

[Wize]

Head over to

http://www.nliteos.com/download.html

download nlite and make a new install cd with the driver for you specific Dell in it. (download the driver from dells page)

SCSI driver and LAN driver

also look into Bashrat for a more generic approach

[y373ukn]

Alternatively you can use Dell's utility so that you can use a USB key for floppy drive emulation: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downl...p;fileid=187876