[HOWTO] Using DriverPacks w/ Sysprep (Updated for BASE 7.04) (Page 7 of 9)

post your sysprep.inf and maybe we can help.

Anyone who loves Steady State Here is my bat as well

:: 
::  firstboot.bat
::  

@echo Installing Bomgar Jump 

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted ""bomgar-RA"

@echo Running Bginfo

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted ""Bginfo.exe" /accepteula /timer:0

@echo Locking D Drive Documents

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted ""REGEDIT.EXE /S "Reg_My_Documents_Fixed.reg"

@echo Setup Auto Login

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted ""REGEDIT.EXE /S "autologon.reg" 

@echo L Key SPSS 18

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted ""spssactivator.exe" OUR KEY"

@echo Open Steady State and User Must Set Disk Protection to On

runas /trustedlevel:unrestricted "C:\Program Files\Windows SteadyState\SCTUI.exe /enableandreboot"

I have it log into as admin run these scripts, lock the drive with some reg and start up steady state. We use steady state on our smart classroom shared PC's where I work.

Last edited by Quad-Damage (2010-02-05 09:06:39)

Ok here is what I'm trying to do

I want to run my firstboot.bat as soon as windows loads into desktop

Many of my reg files are on the local admin desktop and need to be run after syprep

Anyways

Here is what I have currently

In my C:sysprep\i386\$oem
I have the runonce.cmd
and i have my cmdlines.txt

Here is my runconce.cmd

SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
REG ADD %KEY% /V runtwiceex /C "C:\firstboot.cmd"

Good afternoon,

I come here in desperation and a little bit of frasutration . Over the past few weeks I have been tasked with setting up our WSUS and WDS Server at work (YAY IS ME... haha) and after successfully implementing WSUS I moved onto WDS.

This is were the hair pulling begins. We currently have a number of PCs around the Office used by Employees (Ranging from Dells to HPs, and one or two old school Compaqs - they range from UP to MP so where it all began). I than have to deal with our Thin Clients which are deployed to our Customers.

First things first, we'll deal with Employee PCs/Laptops:

Shortly after I began my new venture, I learnt of HAL and the issues of Drivers the hard one, here I am, Sysprep'in a PC, capturing the image with WDS and then imaging the 10 or so of those HP machines - I'm thinking BRILLIANT couldn't be easier - WRONG haha.

Long story short (so as not to make this a WALL OF TEXT) - I discovered DriverPacks, tried following the instructions posted on the first page of this Sticky (well outdated I'm sure), tried various applications like MySysPrep etc to no avail.

After reading through this sticky, I'm somewhat even more lost now (haha) - hearing good things about OfflineSysPrep but don't quite understand it fully, or think it suits what I'm trying to do. Here is what I have atm, and hope someone can point me in the right direction - I would be more than happy to write an update HOWTO guide for the public once this DILEMMA is over.

1. Installed XP Pro on fresh machine
2. Installed SP3 - various Hotfixes/Patches
3. Installed our companys' various required Applications (Anti-Virus, Altiris, VNC etc)
4. Downloaded all the 'latest' DriverPacks packages and extracted them all to C: (C:\D, with the .inf in C: )
5. Have all the SysPrep tools from the Deploy.cab extracted to C:\sysprep
6. ROE.exe in C:\sysprep, DPsFnshr.ini and extract DPsFnshr.7Z to C:, DevPath.exe in C: and also ATICCC.ins in there.

Then gone ahead and imaged it with Ghost (learnt the hardway, had to rebuild the above setup numerous times after 'bad' images) - and awaiting your feedback.

On a sidenote: I hope to go completly 'unattended' with WDS as I had done when I was imaging those 20 or so PCs I did successfully before (Using sysprep.inf and an unattended .xml on the WDS server).

Looking forward to hearing where I've been going wrong.

Last edited by Jack_F (2010-02-05 10:44:01)

Thanks for the reply Quad-Damage, couple questions though:

Should that be ROE.exe 937 or actually 3937?

I'll give this ago tomorrow when back in the office and report back.

Thanks!

Last edited by Jack_F (2010-02-08 12:55:19)

Thanks so much for your help Quad-Damage - however I am alittle confused as to what .bat scripts of yours I should be running.

Firstly I see this one (on Page 6):

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@echo off

:DRIVER_HAL_UPDATE
    SET HAL=

    IF %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%==1 (
        devcon.exe /find @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 | find /i "Multiprocessor" > NUL && SET HAL=ACPIAPIC_UP
        devcon.exe /find @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 | find /i "Multiprocessor" > NUL && SET HAL=MPS_UP
    ) ELSE (
        devcon.exe /find @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 | find /i "Uniprocessor" > NUL && SET HAL=ACPIAPIC_MP
        devcon.exe /find @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 | find /i "Uniprocessor" > NUL && SET HAL=MPS_MP
    )

    IF NOT "%HAL%"=="" (
        ECHO.
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO Installing %HAL% HAL
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO.

        devcon.exe sethwid @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 := !E_ISA_UP !ACPIPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_MP !MPS_UP !MPS_MP !SGI_MPS_MP !SYSPRO_MP !SGI_MPS_MP
        devcon.exe sethwid @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 := !E_ISA_UP !ACPIPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_UP !ACPIAPIC_MP !MPS_UP !MPS_MP !SGI_MPS_MP !SYSPRO_MP !SGI_MPS_MP
        devcon.exe sethwid @ROOT\PCI_HAL\0000 := +%HAL%
        devcon.exe sethwid @ROOT\ACPI_HAL\0000 := +%HAL%
        devcon.exe update %windir%\inf\hal.inf %HAL%
        devcon.exe ReScan

        ECHO.
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO Rebooting
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO.
        devcon.exe Reboot
    ) ELSE (
        ECHO.
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO Correct HAL Detected
        ECHO ----------------------------------------
        ECHO.
    )
GOTO :EOF
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then just above you mention:

@echo off
cd C:\SYSPREP

echo Enabling image for AMD and Intel processors
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\intelppm" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

echo Running sysprep and shutting down.
sysprep.exe -forceshutdown -mini -reseal -quiet -activated

And you also mention to add the line "UpdateUPHAL="ACPIAPIC_MP,%WINDIR%\inf\hal.inf"" to my SysPrep.inf - Should I just be using the last .bat or both or...?

Thanks

Last edited by Jack_F (2010-02-11 21:09:09)

Ok Guys

I thought this would be helpfull

Build your Images with VMware Server 2.0 or 1.9 doesn't matter
Download the Driver Packs and Applications the same as it says in the forums.
Use my scripts. And sysprep files, I deleted my personal info, just add in for yourself
You are more then welcome to use my scripts, this will switch over the hal and sysprep for you
No need to run ROE.exe 937 this does it for you, done via script.
Just run my RUN sysprep Scripts and follow the directions.
Please give it a shot and let me know.

Info Here
http://sites.google.com/site/sysprpeallday/

Files here
http://sites.google.com/site/sysprpeall … prepallday
I hope it's not a problem using my sysprep files and files I use to pervent sysprep errors
I did not put the devcon.exe in the script folder (Due to being a windows file) I don't want to cause any issues let me know if this is a problem.

I use winrar to rar the needed files. Use winrar and let me know how it goes
I didn't put much time into this so let me know if it's helpful.
Quad-Damage

Last edited by Quad-Damage (2010-02-25 06:57:20)

Ok, I've taken it upon myself to provide some sort of updated walkthrough for this.

Here's what I've done so far.

1. Install XP with SP3 slipstream

2. Install updates and needed software for my personal build

3. Extracted deploy.cab to c:\sysprep

4. Copied I386 folder to c:\sysprep\I386

5. Built sysprep.inf using setupmgr.exe

6. Followed skinlayers' guide, skipping the makePNF step, set KTD to "False", and completely skipped Step 10 in favor of using OfflineSysPrep

7. Ran the ROE.exe command and shut down my source machine.

8. Downloaded and Installed BartPE's pebuilder.

9. Downloaded OfflineSysPrep and built the plugin according to documentation from Galepo including the Driverpacks Mass Storage option.

    -edited user_settings.ini to skip some of the drivers for sake of not running out of memory

10. Built and burned a CD with BartPE containing OfflineSysPrep

11. Ran OfflineSysprep on my source machine with the following options:

     Administrator user
     Auto update HAL on first boot
     No path for additonal drivers
     Under "Advanced" I selected to inject standard IDE drivers and Driverpacks non-IDE Mass Storage drivers.

     In the actual sysprep program, I checked mini-Setup and clicked Reseal.

Edit:

Have hit a new snag. On first reboot, Windows starts, I see my background image and the mouse pointer. Within a couple of minutes, it drops to the Windows XP logo "It is safe to turn off your computer" screen. Upon restart, I get back into Windows and am greeted with the following message:

The system is not fully installed. Please run setup again.

While I would really love to get OfflineSysPrep working, it's becoming a severe hassle. I think I may just stick with MySysPrep.

Last edited by beltaine (2010-03-19 07:00:58)

New version of OfflineSysPrep has now been uploaded at 911cd and boot-land.

Regards,
Galapo.

Alright, got a successful image!

Something about using OfflineSysprep to do the actual sysprep breaks the Driverpacks finisher on startup.

I ended up running the "sysprep -bmsd" command, then ROE, then using regular sysprep to reseal, THEN running OfflineSysPrep without sysprep to do the HAL and I injected the Driverpacks Mass Storage drivers with it for giggles. Not sure if the driver injecting works that way or not, but so far the image appears to do what it needs to do.

There is a limit to the number of Mass Storage drivers you may add to a sysprep image. NTFS.SYS = You exceeded it (Out of memory Error)

the finisher does not install drivers - I repeat the DriverPacks Finisher does not install drivers.
the finisher installs related software for ALREADY INSTALLED drivers...
IE if the finisher finds an ATI card it installs the ATI control panel.
If it finds a sound blaster it installs/runs the SBSetup.exe, it "Finishes" installing drivers (that are already installed) where it is required.

the finisher DOES NOT install drivers ... if it did we would have named it "installer" not "finisher" LOL

DP_Inst_Tool.cmd does install drivers

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Ok I changed a few things and it's working better

I am now using mysysprep with the CPU option for UP Hal or MP Hal and seems to work on a few more machines.

does anyone have a success rate of 90% and above? in a single universal image?

what do you guys do for the ones which don't work - make a complete seperate image?