performing unattended XP installs on machines that need 3RD party SCSI or RAID drivers?
Hi all: Quite a few of the machines at work, higher end Dell Precisions, need a 3RD party SCSI driver to see any hard drives during an XP install. During a normal interactive install, the user is prompted to press a certain function key, I believe F6, at the very beginning of the install if such drivers are necessary. They then insert a floppy with the drivers on it and the install proceeds normally. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how this was done with an unattended install? With Vista this issue never comes up, but XP doesn't seem to have as many drivers built into the CD as Vista does. Loading the drivers onto the same disk as the unattended file doesn't seem to work, so was wondering if there was an easy way to work around this? Thanks. Ryan
NLite is an easy to handle integrating th drivers ito the install. It works with XP and 2003 Server. Check out http://nliteos.com It i mostly speech friendly but there are a couple of screens that require using mouse navigation keys. ONe of the screens is the driver integration screen--you have to route the mouse to the Insert control for example. I've used NLite a bunch to build install disks loaded up with sound, video, network, and storage drivers. Keep in mind that when adding 3rd party storage divers intended for use during installation, yo need to add the "text mode" drivers. Matt 202-569-8775 On Wed, July 8, 2009 19:52, Ryan Shugart wrote:
Hi all: Quite a few of the machines at work, higher end Dell Precisions, need a 3RD party SCSI driver to see any hard drives during an XP install. During a normal interactive install, the user is prompted to press a certain function key, I believe F6, at the very beginning of the install if such drivers are necessary. They then insert a floppy with the drivers on it and the install proceeds normally. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how this was done with an unattended install? With Vista this issue never comes up, but XP doesn't seem to have as many drivers built into the CD as Vista does. Loading the drivers onto the same disk as the unattended file doesn't seem to work, so was wondering if there was an easy way to work around this? Thanks. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi Matt: Thanks for the tool, neat find. I have one concern, apparently the license for the tool prohibits comertial use, and I'm not sure if that means just if you're an OEM or if you're using it in a comertial setting, AKA to deploy desktops in a business environment which is what I'm doing. Is anyone using this tool in a corperate IT department? If not, what are you using that performs a similar function, I presume there'd have to be something similar really large IT shops use. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of White, Matt Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:24 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] performing unattended XP installs on machines that need 3RD party SCSI or RAID drivers? NLite is an easy to handle integrating th drivers ito the install. It works with XP and 2003 Server. Check out http://nliteos.com It i mostly speech friendly but there are a couple of screens that require using mouse navigation keys. ONe of the screens is the driver integration screen--you have to route the mouse to the Insert control for example. I've used NLite a bunch to build install disks loaded up with sound, video, network, and storage drivers. Keep in mind that when adding 3rd party storage divers intended for use during installation, yo need to add the "text mode" drivers. Matt 202-569-8775 On Wed, July 8, 2009 19:52, Ryan Shugart wrote:
Hi all: Quite a few of the machines at work, higher end Dell Precisions, need a 3RD party SCSI driver to see any hard drives during an XP install. During a normal interactive install, the user is prompted to press a certain function key, I believe F6, at the very beginning of the install if such drivers are necessary. They then insert a floppy with the drivers on it and the install proceeds normally. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how this was done with an unattended install? With Vista this issue never comes up, but XP doesn't seem to have as many drivers built into the CD as Vista does. Loading the drivers onto the same disk as the unattended file doesn't seem to work, so was wondering if there was an easy way to work around this? Thanks. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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Hi Matt: Thanks for the tool, neat find. I have one concern, apparently the license for the tool prohibits comertial use, and I'm not sure if that means just if you're an OEM or if you're using it in a comertial setting, AKA to deploy desktops in a business environment which is what I'm doing. Is anyone using this tool in a corperate IT department? If not, what are you using that performs a similar function, I presume there'd have to be something similar really large IT shops use. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of White, Matt Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:24 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] performing unattended XP installs on machines that need 3RD party SCSI or RAID drivers? NLite is an easy to handle integrating th drivers ito the install. It works with XP and 2003 Server. Check out http://nliteos.com It i mostly speech friendly but there are a couple of screens that require using mouse navigation keys. ONe of the screens is the driver integration screen--you have to route the mouse to the Insert control for example. I've used NLite a bunch to build install disks loaded up with sound, video, network, and storage drivers. Keep in mind that when adding 3rd party storage divers intended for use during installation, yo need to add the "text mode" drivers. Matt 202-569-8775 On Wed, July 8, 2009 19:52, Ryan Shugart wrote:
Hi all: Quite a few of the machines at work, higher end Dell Precisions, need a 3RD party SCSI driver to see any hard drives during an XP install. During a normal interactive install, the user is prompted to press a certain function key, I believe F6, at the very beginning of the install if such drivers are necessary. They then insert a floppy with the drivers on it and the install proceeds normally. I was wondering if anyone had any idea how this was done with an unattended install? With Vista this issue never comes up, but XP doesn't seem to have as many drivers built into the CD as Vista does. Loading the drivers onto the same disk as the unattended file doesn't seem to work, so was wondering if there was an easy way to work around this? Thanks. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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