Install Freezes When Installing Devices.

[Judas989]

Everything goes just fine until the "Installing Devices" message displays during the installation of my custom Windows XP CD. Here is a look at my WINNT.SIF file.

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]Autopartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEulA=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

Repartition=No

Unattendswitch="Yes"

WaitForReboot="No"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Nvidia\;Drivers\creative\Drivers\WIN2K_XP\;Drivers\soyo\audio\;drivers\soyo\raid\;Drivers\soyo\nic\WINXP

\;Drivers\soyo\agp\R112_Logo\AGP\WINXP\;drivers\soyo\agp\R112_Logo\USB\Win2K_XP\;drivers\logitech\keyboard\Win2K_XP\;drivers\logitech\mouse\Win2K_XP\

AutoActivate=No

[GuiUnattended]

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=35

OemSkipWelcome=1

ProfilesDir="%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\"

[userData]

FullName="User"

OrgName="Organization"

ComputerName=PCNAME

[Display]

BitsPerPel=32

XResolution=1280

YResolution=1024

Vrefresh=85

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=1

Dialing=Tone

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

Language=00000809

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[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

    MS_NWIPX=params.MS_NWIPX

[params.MS_TCPIP]

    DNS=Yes

    UseDomainNameDevolution=No

    EnableLMHosts=Yes

    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]

    SpecificTo=Adapter1

    DHCP=Yes

    WINS=No

    NetBIOSOptions=0

[params.MS_NWIPX]

    VirtualNetworkNumber=00000000

    AdapterSections=params.MS_NWIPX.Adapter1

[params.MS_NWIPX.Adapter1]

    SpecificTo=Adapter1

    PktType=0xFF

    NetworkNumber=00000000

[Components]

msmsgs=off

msnexplr=off

media_clips=off

media_utopia=off

Accessopt=off

AutoUpdate=off

templates=off

fax=off

Clipbook=off

hypertrm=off

rec=off

pinball=off

freecell=off

minesweeper=off

solitaire=off

spider=off

hearts=off

zonegames=off

[shell]

DefaultThemesOff=Yes

[GUIRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\applications.cmd

It's probably just because I don't have quotes around my driver inst. paths... but tell me what you think.

P.S.

Should I put quotes around ALL the values?

[gosh]

Your OemPnPDriversPath is way too long. The length limit is something small like 128 characters. One option would to be manually edit hivesys.inf. But i recommend shortening the driver list. It would be helpful if you posted the log files, setuperr.log, setupapi.log, setupact.log. It would be helpful to know what error msg you get.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=OemPnPDr....phx.gbl&rnum=1

-gosh

[Aaron]

Yes, you should have quotes at the start and the end:

OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Nvidia;Drivers\creative\Drivers\WIN2K_XP;Drivers\soyo\audio;drivers\soyo\raid;Drivers\soyo\nic\WINXP;Drivers\soyo\agp\

R112_Logo\AGP\WINXP;drivers\soyo\agp\R112_Logo\USB\Win2K_XP;drivers\logitech\keyboard\Win2K_XP;drivers\logitech\mouse\Win2K_XP"

I've also removed the trialling slashes before every semi-colon.

Gosh - I think the limit has been increased to 4096 characters since Windows 2000. Will need to check up on that again to be sure.

Edit: here it is http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;312535