Sorry we didnt have the solution for you... but it sounds like your off to the races anyway!

Have a great day and thanks for being here.

First I tried again to eliminate a possible conflicting driver, by skipping the driverpacks (Chipset, CPU, graphics, Sound & mass storage) to leave only the LAN & W-LAN drivers actually ;-)
> but that didn't do the thing eighter. My system still hung on the reboot before the installation of the apps. (RunOnceEX.cmd)

I also removed the files & the listing in TXTSETUP.SIF as discribed here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Stripping-unn … 58243.html

& I found something similar regarding DELL OEM problems here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended- … 05621.html

> but still I had the same problem...

I gave up on the DELL cd & I used a OEM CD from HP & that works like a charm !!!

I admit that I didn't really found the problem on the DELL CD but I'm happy that I have a working solution !!! & hey ... forget the DELL thing OK !

thanks for helping anyway & c u later somewhere on MSFN !
greetz
Tim

I was allready looking into that direction... The file structure on the CD is indeed different from a retail version.
I allready deleted the obvious ones in the $OEM$ folder, a very suspicious one for example; was an INF folder in the $$-map... with driverfiles inside. So, I made the structure of the $OEM$ equal to the structure of the retail version; & I get no other errors during install, but the final result is the same: @ the reboot before the application installation starts; the system hangs.
I forgot to mention in my first post that it DOES boot & starts the apps. install. when I press the F8-key to boot in safe mode. So it could still be a conflicting driver. I allready eliminated the chipset & CPU drivers (& I'm not using the mass-storage drivers).. So I better try to eliminate the graphics & sound drivers too; ...  but maybe there is still something in their I386 folder that I could not locate yet.
I will eliminate the graphics & sound drivers today ... & let you know about the result ...
If it doesn't do the thing; I can try an OEM version of MEDION instead of DELL tomorrow & keep you posted about that too ;-)

big thanks for the replies allready & please keep following because my job is depending on this; HAHA!!

greetz
Tim

The oem dell disk includes drivers, branding, machine checks and bundled software.

IE it is not a clean starting point.

I would investigate the contents of their $oem$ folder and other locations for bundled software and drivers that might conflict with DriverPacks.

Yeah, just what happen in here, it seems:
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=2858

IE it is not a clean starting point.

I would investigate the contents of their $oem$ folder and other locations for bundled software and drivers that might conflict with DriverPacks.

you could work backwards and split the packs in half say skipping graphics and sound packs first go around
if the problem is gone it is resonable to assume we are looking for a sound or video driver that is confilcting
by process of elimination you could probably narrow your search to a specific pack that is at issue. this will help focus your search for the problem with the OEM disk

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=4

We need that.

There should be no difference between Retail vs OEM vs VLK installs where drivers are concerned.

*Edit,
Oops, I missed the part where you mentioned Dell.  Dell and other OEMs sometimes bundle drivers in their install CDs for their own machines.

I used to make my first unattended DVD +/- 2 years ago which has always worked fine!

Now I'm trying to make a new version with updated apps, hotfixes & ... new driverpacks (v.8.05)

Everything works like a charm with a volume license (retail) version of XP & NOT with an OEM version (DELL).

During the second reboot (before execution of runoneEX.cmd) my systems hangs (on the DOS XP-logo) ... the sliding blue bar under the logo stops moving > (system hangs)

I slipstream the driverpacks as the last action, in both cases ... so no hotfixes or any modification after integration of the driverpacks. (cfr. txtsetup.sif) ... I also compared the txtsetup.sif file in both cases, & they seem the same, same filesize...)

when I use the old driverpacks (from my first DVD) into the OEM version, there is no problem & like I said slipstreaming the new driverpacks in a retail version of XP also works fine.

Any driverpack-experience regarding OEM vs retail installs ? ...

If you need more info, files or logs (which ones?) please ask & I will provide them!!