See <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/>. I do "nothing but net"
installs with the OEM Intel Pro100 driver all the time.
- Pat
"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
> I am experiencing the same problem as DJ and many others
> and so far I was unable to find a solution to it.
> I need to perform an UNATTENDED install (RIS is not an
> option) to a 100 floppyless and CDROM-less PCs running
> WinME. When tested on a normal PC I did not have a single
> problem since all the HW was detected by the setup.
> However the actual machines have Intel Pro100 VE card
> coming with OEM drivers. I have placed the drivers into
> $OEM$ and moved $OEM$ under I386 and also on the same
> level. All suggestions like quotes or no quotes, etc in
> the .sif file have been tested. I386 was placed on a
> network share and later copied locally. The bottom line
> is - NIC drivers are not getting copied from the
> distribution folder/share and are not being recognized by
> the setup. After the install I have to go to the Device
> Manager and manually install the driver for "Ethernet
> Adapter". Once pointed to the driver, setup complets in a
> matter of seconds without a glitch.
> I have tried to follow instructions in
> http://support.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-000023-
> prd38.htm but could not apply them to the unattended
> install.
>
> Please share your ideas!