expert question: Howto Add 3th party Mass Storage Drives unattended?

[Ivo Michiel]

unattended you can do only over network: with unattended.txt
or hack: soms files in i386.

Over the network, I must boot in DOS with network.
The first second of winnt.exe he said that he isn't able to find a
place to put his swapfile. Afcourse, he has no driver! But how see
Microsoft, to boot in DOS and format a RAID drive ?
How you can format in a drive without driver in dos?
Intel ICH6R has no DOS driver !
How to solve?

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
ExtendOemPartition = 1
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\0chipset;Drivers\1netwerk;Drivers\2intRAID;Drivers\3wireles;Drivers\4_sound;Drivers\5RAID_IT;Drivers\6RAID_Si;Drivers\7_acpi
OemPreinstall=Yes
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
WaitForReboot = Yes
Repartition = Yes
DisableVirtualOemDevices = Yes

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller" = OEM

; See comments for [MassStorageDrivers]
[OEMBootFiles]
IASTOR.SYS
IASTOR.CAT
TXTSETUP.OEM
IASTOR.INF

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello Ivo,
When you boot from MS-DOS, the first thing the happens is that Winnt tries
to create files and folder(s) to start copying files to the local hard
drive so you have to be able to access the local hard drive from MS-DOS
before setup runs.
Drivers are not loaded until the first reboot into text mode setup. We
then load the files for the Mass Storage drivers for the first time.
So the drive has to be partitioned and formatted with Fat or Fat32 to be
able to use Winnt.exe and drive letter has to exist in MS-DOS for Winnt.exe
to copy files to. All Winnt.exe is really doing is copying files to the
drive, drivers are loaded at the next stage after the reboot.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Subject: expert question: Howto Add 3th party Mass Storage Drives unattended?
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unattended you can do only over network: with unattended.txt
or hack: soms files in i386.

Over the network, I must boot in DOS with network.
The first second of winnt.exe he said that he isn't able to find a
place to put his swapfile. Afcourse, he has no driver! But how see
Microsoft, to boot in DOS and format a RAID drive ?
How you can format in a drive without driver in dos?
Intel ICH6R has no DOS driver !
How to solve?

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
ExtendOemPartition = 1
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\0chipset;Drivers\1netwerk;Drivers\2intRAID;Driver s\3wireles;Drivers\4_sound;Drivers\5RAID_IT;Drivers\6RAID_Si;Drivers\7_acpi
OemPreinstall=Yes
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
WaitForReboot = Yes
Repartition = Yes
DisableVirtualOemDevices = Yes

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller" = OEM

; See comments for [MassStorageDrivers]
[OEMBootFiles]
IASTOR.SYS
IASTOR.CAT
TXTSETUP.OEM
IASTOR.INF

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti [MVP]]

Nothing in unattend.txt will help you here; you need DOS drivers for
your mass storage hardware. For some hardware, such drivers might not
even exist.

One option is to switch to using the Windown Preinstallation
Environment (WinPE). Sorry, can't help you with that.

Another option, which I use, is to boot a diskless Linux system
instead (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/). For a recent
testimonial, see
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02135.html>.

- Pat