Load Third-Party Driver w/ F6

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During the installation process, a prompt is given to "press F6 to load a
third party SCSI or RAID driver", and pressing F6 will bring up a dialog that
checks the floppy drive for the driver in question. My problem is that my
FDD has recently died, so I was wondering if there is any way to have the
installer load the driver from another device (like my CD-ROM drive)...it
seems like there should be a way to manually specify the search path, but the
isntaller doesn't seem at all inclined to look anywhere other than "A:".
 
There is no other way to load those drivers than the floppy. Period. Go buy
a new one, they're cheap.
 
What do people do who have a newer machine that doesn't
have a floppy drive?

*TimDan*
 
Some1ne said:
During the installation process, a prompt is given to "press F6 to load a
third party SCSI or RAID driver", and pressing F6 will bring up a dialog
that
checks the floppy drive for the driver in question. My problem is that my
FDD has recently died, so I was wondering if there is any way to have the
installer load the driver from another device (like my CD-ROM drive)...it
seems like there should be a way to manually specify the search path, but
the
isntaller doesn't seem at all inclined to look anywhere other than "A:".
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Use the window drivers, then after setup you update the Manufacturer's RAID
drivers.
 
WTC said:
Use the window drivers, then after setup you update the Manufacturer's RAID
drivers.
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That doesn't work, as there is no default driver included, and I want to
install Windows onto the device that requires the third party driver to be
loaded. Getting a replacement floppy is probably the best solution, although
I don't see any reason why the search should be limited to A:...surely there
is no harm in letting the user choose what device to load the driver from,
and not a whole lot of technical complexity involved in implementing such a
feature.
 
Some1ne said:
During the installation process, a prompt is given to "press F6 to load a
third party SCSI or RAID driver", and pressing F6 will bring up a dialog
that
checks the floppy drive for the driver in question. My problem is that my
FDD has recently died, so I was wondering if there is any way to have the
installer load the driver from another device (like my CD-ROM drive)...it
seems like there should be a way to manually specify the search path, but
the
isntaller doesn't seem at all inclined to look anywhere other than "A:".
Click to expand...

I would imagine you could use nlite to slipstream the drivers into the XP
disk. Then they would be installed during the installation without you
needing to hit F6.
http://nuhi.msfn.org/
 
Whether or not there are arguments about how to implement things Microsoft
has the final say and they decided the method would be via a floppy and F6.
All the gnashing of teeth won't change it. And there are lots of gnashed
teeth out there, especially from those folks that have laptops and no
floppy.
 
From all the stuff I've read on slipstreaming I have yet to find an article
anywhere that says how to slipsteam drivers so you would then have things
updated. Do you have a souce for your comments?
 
Jerry said:
From all the stuff I've read on slipstreaming I have yet to find an
article anywhere that says how to slipsteam drivers so you would then have
things updated. Do you have a souce for your comments?
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I haven't tried it myself because I don't have a raid setup but in what's
new in the latest version of nlite it says they fixed raid/sata integration
problem. Also the page below tells you how to do it but it is a bit more
advanced.
http://greenmachine.msfnhosting.com/READING/addraid.htm
 
That nlite utility seems like it would be ideal, were it not for the fact
that I'm trying to do this with the 64-bit version of XP Pro and the very
first thing the program said when I pointed it at the disk was "64-bit
Windows is not supported yet" (in slightly different words)...but otherwise
it seems like it would be a very useful utility in general. The instructions
provided by the greenmachine link are comprehensible enough, the only problem
is that I don't have whatever utils are necessary to compress/decompress the
driver files on the CD.

Anyways, thanks for the helpful posts, it's nice to know that I could do
something to fix it (other than buying a new floppy drive), if I were
determined enough to go and find and learn to use the proper utilities.
 
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