1 Reply by nonamenone

(4 replies, posted in Other)

Many thanks for your replies.

Why I would like this is that we support a lot of clients and it would be an easy way to start an install, wait for the reboot and then walk away. Also we would like to standardise the install process to all our sites as some have servers and some do not (therefore RIS would not help).

This idea was just a thought based upon the varied hardware we look after, i.e. all have CD’s, some wont boot from USB, some do not have floppies, some do not have PXE enabled NIC’s etc,  so we are looking for an install type for all and the common denominator is the CD drive\network share.

I am wondering if there is another similar way to do this, maybe another boot CD that has all LAN drivers and can pull off the install from a network share.

Thanks again

Mark

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2 Topic by nonamenone

(4 replies, posted in Other)

Hi All

I am wondering if the following is possible:

I would like to start an installation of XP\Vista from CD or USB, and then after the first reboot would like the installation to seek its files from a network share so that I can remove the media and walk away.

I am fullly up to date on slipstreaming etc.

Does anyone have any ideas on this?

Hope the above makes sense

Regards

Mark

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3 Reply by nonamenone

(3 replies, posted in Feedback and Support - DriverPacks Base)

Thanks for the reply and the welcome.

Im probably looking for something simpler.

Once our cd is run and the pc is on the domain, we deploy our remote access software and finish the rest of the install manually (due to an old dos based database etc)

What I normally do is put in cd's with the extracted driverpacks and get windows to search for the updated drivers for each unknown device (old Dells - no DVD Drives)

What I would like is a server share that windows will search all folders within it.

I have seen the "set cddrive" command, but windows seems to ignore this when searching (or am I doing something wrong?).

I hope the above makes sense?

Kind regards

Mark

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4 Topic by nonamenone

(3 replies, posted in Feedback and Support - DriverPacks Base)

Hi All

I use a unattended CD to install XP with all the lan drivers integrated and then install the additional vga\sound etc drivers manually.

I was wondering is it possible to have a network share with all other drivers available that windows searches automatically either during or after installation to update itself?

I know I can use the $oem$ folder, but that pulls them all down locally and is a lot of typing in the sif file.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Mark

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