$oem$ shows as _oem_ unattended install issue in dos mode

[Stuart Coney]

Hi

I have developed an unattended W2k server build which up until now has been
used by booting a diskette or image (pxe) which binds the network card using
a DOS NIC driver, connecting to the network where the installation
repository is located and starting the installation.

I now want to create a version of the installation on CD which removes the
requirement for the DOS based networking configuration. The CD holds both
the i386 and $OEM$ directories.....

However when I boot into DOS and load the cd driver and perform a dir on the
cd drive, the $OEM$ directory is displayed as _OEM_ and $1 as _1. This in
turn causes a problem during the install when I get the message unable to
find $OEM$ resulting in a failed build.

I am using a Windows 98 formatted system diskette to perform the builds.
Any advice or ideas on remedying this is much appreciated.

thanks
Stu

 

[Juha Suominen]

Hi Stu,

I think it happens because the ISO standard allows no $ in
the file and folder names on a CD.

I had the same problem when I changed from "Roxio easy cd
creator" to "Nero-burning rom". I tried several settings
in Nero but I could not make it work so I went back to
using Roxio for creating my unattended setup CDs...

Regards

Juha

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

That's interesting! I read a post from someone recently who changed from
Roxio to Nero to solve the same problem.

It's perfectly possible to use Joliet and some of the more advanced options
on a 2000/XP CD. All you have to watch for is that you don't take advantage
of long filenames in your $oem$ directory, as they won't work properly.

Oli