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Software / update internet xplorer that come in win 2k

« on: October 21, 2003, 04:34:55 AM »

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 02:53 PM\']Copy your patches and the IE files to the corresponding folders.

Place a file cmdlines.txt in the $OEM$ folder.

Edit this file and add all the commandlines you need:

[Commands]
".\ie60sp1\ie6setup.exe /q /r:n"
".\updates\qXXXXXX.exe /q:a /r:n"

and so on....[/quote]

Oh, I forgot: the last command when installing fixes must be:

".\updates\qchain.exe"

Pit

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Software / Windows 2000 unnatended with drivers on CD

« on: October 21, 2003, 01:50:36 AM »

[quote name=\'Ausmith1\' date=\'May 6 2003, 11:06 AM\']OK, after reading the steps described in other posts I finally got one driver added to my Win2K Server CD, here is a very basic step by step of how I how I did it.
Plese keep in mind that what I got to work may not be the optimium way of doing it and that I may have included extra steps that are unnecessary, as I have to time to debug every possible scenario I will pare the process down to the mimimium steps required...

For this example I first created a slipstreamed SP3 Win2k Advanced Server ISO with the great Windows CD compiler script available @
http://berns.cae.wisc.edu/pages/wincdman.asp

In the following example we will add the VMWare SCSI drivers for a VMWare 4.0 Workstation

1) Obtain the latest version of the drivers from
http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadscsi.html

2) Copy the expanded contents of the driver disk to \$OEM$\$1\Temp\Drivers\SCSI\VMWare

3) Add the path "Temp\Drivers\SCSI\VMWare;" to the WinNT.Sif file on floppy

4) Copy the file vmscsi.sys to \i386

5) Edit the file \i386\TxtSetup.Sif with the following changes taken from the txtsetup.oem & vmscsi.inf files

In the section [SourceDisksFiles.x86] add the line
vmscsi.sys = 1,,,4_,4,1,,1,4

In the section [HardwareIdsDatabase] add the line
PCI\VEN_104B&DEV_1040 = "VMscsi"

In the section [SCSI.Load] add the line
VMSCSI = vmscsi.sys,4

In the section [SCSI] add the line
VMSCSI = "VMware SCSI Controller"

6) Edit the file \i386\DrvIndex.Inf with the following changes

In the section [driver] add the line
vmscsi.sys

7) Edit the file \i386\HIVESYS.INF with the following changes

In the section [AddReg] add the lines
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi","ErrorControl",0x00010003,1
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi","Group",0x00000002,"SCSI miniport"
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi","Start",0x00010003,4
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi","Tag",0x00010003,259
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi","Type",0x00010003,1
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi\Parameters",,0x00000012
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi\Parameters\Device","NumberOfRequests",0x00800003,128
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMscsi\Parameters\PnpInterface","5",0x00010003,1
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\System\VMscsi","EventMessageFile",0x00020002,"%SystemRoot%\System32\IoLogMsg.dll"
HKLM,"SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\System\VMscsi","TypesSupported",0x00010003,7

Recompile the ISO file and you should now have a CD that will recognise the SCSI adapter in a VMWare 4.0 workstation session.

Notes: I'm not sure if steps 2, 3 & 6 are really necessary, I put them in just to be sure it would work...
Also in my winnt.sif file I added the following line in the [Unattended] section
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;EN-US;q250380
for why this must = Ignore

I am still trying to get my Compaq Smart Array 5i drivers to work in this fashion, AFAIK I have everything entered correctly but the system BSODs as soon as it enters GUI mode... Anyone else got this card to work?
I have starting on adding the following cards to my boot CD
IBM ServeRAID 5i
LSI Logic SYMMPI SCSI/FC / Apple FC HBA (Same driver)
Emulex LP950
If I can get all of these to work then I be very happy http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />[/quote]

Hi,

steps 2 and 3 are not necessary. Within step 4 copy also the drivers inf file.

In step 5 add also the inf file with vmscsi.sys = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0. If you do so, step 7 is also unnecessary!

If you want to install the OS not from CD but from LAN, you must add the sys and inf files to dossetup.inf.

Scanning txtsetup.sif and dosnet.inf for "ultra66" is an excellent way to see what must be done.

Pit

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Software / W2K Boot CD

« on: October 21, 2003, 01:01:20 AM »

[quote name=\'AC\' date=\'Sep 26 2003, 11:23 AM\']Does anyone know what am I doing wrong? Any help you can offer would be appreciated.[/quote]
Hi!

First I presume, that your driver disk contains a tag file? For example this file is named "IBM" and it's a simple textfile with the disk name in it (IBM). Always add this file to OEMBootFiles!

Why did you edit inf files? This is not neccessary normaly.

Try again with the original files and if it does not work, try another driver version.

Pit

P.S.: It's a much better way to include mass-storage drivers directly into the setup without using the unattend.txt!

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Software / win2k+sp4 bootable cd

« on: October 20, 2003, 04:16:22 PM »

[quote name=\'Rosh\' date=\'Oct 13 2003, 05:34 AM\']can anybody help[/quote]
 
Hi,

neither the link was [censored] nor the slipstreaming went wrong... Did you try to slipstream a w2k SP2 CD?

Pit

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Software / Service Pack and HOTFIX integration

« on: October 20, 2003, 04:10:57 PM »

[quote name=\'David\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 09:50 AM\']However, how would I go about integrating all current hotfixes into Windows 2000 SP4 so that when I install SP4 onto a machine running W2K the hotfixes are installed along with the Service Pack??[/quote]

David, please have a look at my answer as "Guest" in the thread http://www.thetechguide.com/forum/index.ph...?showtopic=9869. Interesting for you is the "updates" section.

It's a bit easyer, when the new updates are collected to a pre-servicepack. I have this packs for w2k, XP and 98SE, but only for the german versions of the OS. But I'm quit sure that somebody creates such a wonderful thing for the english versions too ;-)

Pit