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December 20, 2000 01:20 PM

Customizing Unattended Win2K Installations

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Make your unattended installations more useful and less time-consuming
The bane of every systems administrator's existence is visiting user desktops. The reason isn't that users are terrible people unworthy of visitation, but that desktop visits are time-consuming and costly for the company. In many organizations, the installation and configuration of client OSs is often one of the most significant drains on IT department resources.

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Sean, I read your comments to my question below in your article but it does not answer the question I am asking. My questions refers to multiple vendor RAID drivers being copied to the $OEM$\\Textmode\\ directory from the Win2K distribution folder. Including multiple RAID controllers file sets in this directory results in multiple txtsetup.oem files. As a result you can overwrite specific previously copied vendor file sets (txtsetup.oem's), is there a way to merge two or thre of the multi-vendor txtsetup.oem files into one file.

JOSEPH12/26/2004 10:53:33 PM


I have a question for Sean Daily regarding the the Mass Storage Device drivers. Are problem is that we have a W2K distribution Server which we need to load various servers with different RAID Controllers. How can we place all the various Mass Storage device drivers in a single textmode directory without over writing another vendors, .inf, and txtsetup.oem file. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.


Installing Mass Storage Device Support
Installing support for an unsupported mass storage device in a Win2K distribution folder involves the following process: First, create a subfolder named Textmode under the $OEM$ subfolder in your Win2K distribution folder. Next, you need to copy the mass storage device driver files that you received from the hardware vendor (e.g., on a 3.5" disk, CD-ROM, or through a download) to the Textmode subfolder. This set of files usually includes at least a .sys, .inf, and txtsetup.oem file, and might include a .dll file.

Joseph Reyes 12/27/2003 6:57:48 PM


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