Creating an Unattended Windows XP CD

[ralexand88]

I was wondering, bare with me as I am fairly new to these things, at what point would I install drivers for chipset, ide, agp, and lan? I noticed that there is an entry to update existing but what about entirely new drivers?

And does anyone know how to install audigy 2 drivers?

I am a total newb.

Thanks for your input.

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
Mark were you ever able to get it to boot using your PROMISE RAID drivers on the CD? Or are you still having to press f6?

Sorry, personal issue came up earlier in the week , so I've had to quit working on this .. Got that settled so its time to get back to playing again!!

I hope to begin either later tonight, or tomorrow.

As soon as I have it figured out, I'll post it.

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
Mark were you ever able to get it to boot using your PROMISE RAID drivers on the CD?

SUCCESS!! Now my cd includes the Text Mode driver (if that is what it is called??) for the Promise Fastrack 376 Raid controller built into the Asus P4PE so that you DON'T HAVE TO PRESS F6 and give it the driver diskette, AND YOU CAN INSTALL TO A hard drive attached to the Promise Controller.

I found and followed info at... http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread...d&pagenumber=2 there is a post from Cpu6x4 on 7-7-03 at 19:58 (its the 3rd post from him on that page.)

A part about doing it this way is if you have a couple systems that need DIFFERENT Raid drivers, like I have both the P4PE (Promise FastTrack 376) and a P4P800 Deluxe (VIA VT6410 IDE RAID Controller), this should work for all you need to add.

I made a couple mistakes when I first set it up (typeo on one line in the TXTSETUP.SIF caused XP Install to not find the FASTTX2K.SYS file plus accidentally copied the FASTTX2K.INF file to an extra spot causing me reboots during setup. After I got those taken care of it works great. I installed to a 40 gig maxtor attached to the SATA connector on my P4PE (using a SIIG pata to sata converter).

I still have the TimeZone and telephone area code not filling in correctly. Can anyone help with those? (see my winnt.sif posted earlier in this thread.)

[tamarelle]

mark could you email me your txtsetup.oem file?
how is the textmode file set up?

in $OEM$ under i386 or in $OEM$ in root of the cd?

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
mark could you email me your txtsetup.oem file?
how is the textmode file set up?

in $OEM$ under i386 or in $OEM$ in root of the cd?

But thats just it... I am not using the TXTSETUP.OEM file...

The way I found, posted above, and am now using does things a little differently....

You know how Windows XP includes "built in support" already for various IDE controllers, SCSI cards, CD Rom Drives, floppy controllers, etc for the Text Mode portion of the setup.. Stuff you don't need to press F6 for... Well this way I am now using builds on that... Editing the HIVESYS.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF and copying FASTTX2K.SYS to i386 adds support for the FastTrak card to that built in driver support... And the normal OemPNPDriverPath stuff in the WINNT.SIF that we could get working installs the GUI mode drivers.

I'll post my edited HIVESYS.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF as an example in about an hour or so... After I test it with the drivers added for the VIA controller my Primary machine needs...

On a side note... If TXTSETUP.OEM files were used.. What happens in the case of needing to support multiple additional cards? Wouldn't I have to go through and combine the TXTSETUP.OEM files of each cards?? Lots of editing compaired to this method of editing/adding to HIVESYS.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF

[tamarelle]

okay

thats fine with me as the textsetup.oem doesnt work.

But in this case, this guy is referring to a HIGHPOINT controller and extracting settings for the highpoint into the hivesys.if files and the txtsetup.sif files

What would be the corresponding codes for a promise 376/376 controller?

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
okay

thats fine with me as the textsetup.oem doesnt work.

Well, knowing you were posting about trobles, and I'd have to read the this thread again, but IIRC someone else was also having problems getting it to work that way... I didn't even try the TEXTSETUP.OEM way...

Originally posted by tamarelle
But in this case, this guy is referring to a HIGHPOINT controller and extracting settings for the highpoint into the hivesys.if files and the txtsetup.sif files

What would be the corresponding codes for a promise 376/376 controller?

Yes its the same for the promise 376 and even the VIA 6410 on my Asus P4P800 Dlx...

In addition to the files in the ZIP attached to this post, copy the FASTRX2K.SYS (for the promise 376) and VIARAID.SYS (for the Via 6410) files to the i386 directory on the CD.

Attached are my files... EDITED.. File removed see next post for updated files

They are the original HIVESYS.INF and TXTSETUP.INF with the added support for the Promise FastTrak 376 and Via 6140... (the promise FastTrak 376 driver also supports the Promise S150 TX4, TX4000, and S150)

To find what I added.. Search these files for lines that contain FASTTX2K or VIARAID.

Now, if you don't have the VIA controller so you will not be droping a copy of VIARAID.SYS in your i386 directory, I am not sure if an error will be given or not... So you can try this as is, and edit those VIARAID lines later out if needed....

[tamarelle]

oh wow thank you Mark

so I can just replace mine with these?

thank you

did you also have the setting

OEMPreInstall=TEXTMODE? in your winnt.sif file?

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
... so I can just replace mine with these?

Yes, you can just replace yours with these. But Keep in mind, I do not know what will happen if you use these files and do NOT place BOTH the FASTTX2K.SYS AND VIARAID.SYS files in your i386 dir.

Try it, if you get an error, either get the VIA drivers from the ASUS site (P4P800 DLX downloads) so you can drop the VIARAID.SYS file into the i386 dir or strip out the lines I added that refer to VIARAID.

Originally posted by tamarelle

did you also have the setting

OEMPreInstall=TEXTMODE? in your winnt.sif file?

No, I don't have that setting. I have not changed my WINNT.SIF since posting it on page 7 of this thread.


EDIT: Better yet... here is that same ZIP file again.. this time it includes the HIVESYS.INF and TXTSETUP.SIF like before, but also includes the FASTTX2K.SYS and VIARAID.SYS files. Just unzip into your i386 directory if you want to use these as is instead of editing yourself. btw I am using WinXP Pro US English

[tamarelle]

oh thank you Mark You are so helpful

[tamarelle]

I am about to SCREAM!!!!!!

I did what you said Mark.

And I took out every reference to txtsetup.oem.

But every time I burn it to CD and boot with it, I get the same message when it tries to load the fasttx2k.sys files,
"file txtsetup.oem caused an error in d:\xsp1\base\boot.etc.."

how can this be????????
I dont evenhave txtsetup.oem INSTALLED on the cd.

This one sucks

Tam

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by tamarelle
I am about to SCREAM!!!!!!

I did what you said Mark.

And I took out every reference to txtsetup.oem.

But every time I burn it to CD and boot with it, I get the same message when it tries to load the fasttx2k.sys files,
"file txtsetup.oem caused an error in d:\xsp1\base\boot.etc.."

how can this be????????
I dont evenhave txtsetup.oem INSTALLED on the cd.

Maybe its time to start from scratch.. or nearly scratch... i.e. keep only your $oem$ folder, WINNT.SIF files and redo the rest of the "CD"...

BTW, Earlier in this thread you posted your WINNT.SIF and it had....

[MassStorageDrivers]
"IDE CD-ROM (ATAPI 1.2)/PCI IDE Controller" = "RETAIL"

Why do you have that? What does it do? And since it says "cd-rom" It leads me to ask where is your CDrom drive connected?

[tamarelle]

I think you're right ]

I guess I will chill.

I cannot imagine what I have done.

[iMogal]

Sorry to hear your still having problems Tam, I think Mark is right, start NEW I have!

I get the INF drivers and Video drivers to install.
DX9b, Sound (Audigy2) and onboard LAN are still wont install.
Anyone help out with the command lines?

[Mark_Venture]

Originally posted by iMogal
I get the INF drivers and Video drivers to install.
DX9b, Sound (Audigy2) and onboard LAN are still wont install.
Anyone help out with the command lines?

For DX9b.... I followed ... http://www.msfn.org/unattended/xp/directx.htm

I just have an SBLive Value and its drivers are included with XP, and I don't use any of the utilities from Creative Labs, so I don't install anything else.

As for lan... I have a DIR on my CD called $OEM$\$1\drivers\3Com that contains the drivers for the 3Com GigaBit Ethernet card built into my P4P800Dlx board and did the OemPNPDriversPath thing in my WINNT.SIF file (see it posted earlier in this thread.) I did the same thing for the Broadcomm drivers for my P4PE board.