On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:37 pm, TUSSEY Aloha wrote: > Hi all, > I haven't gone that far with my first setup but at least my first > installation went thru to the level of the OS. As at now I have been > thinking of the following:
> 1. A method for selecting and installing different languages of the an > application( say: OFF2K english and Czech version depending on the base OS > language version installed or to be able to select meself) I assume it could be done, but i have no experience or Idea about this at this point in time. > 2. machine > specific drivers copied to the $OEM$\$1 are all copied to the C: drive even > if I did not select the directory. e.g an IBM T40 and a DELL C600. After > installing the IBM I found out that the C600 directory was also copied to > the C drive even though it was an IBM. - and even it did not clean out the > mess after the installation. With so many drivers for a specific model(IBM > T40 have a size of cca 120 MB all inclusive) the directory can grow and the > 2G initial partition will not fit. I have read someone reporting on not > enough space during XP install- this could be the problem. See answer to 4. But I think the oversize XP is probably partly this problem. Maybe we should do some cleanup after XP is installed, but with the size of HDD's now, I wouldn't see drivers for a specific machine exceeding a couple of hundred meg. But maybe we want that space. > 3. Can the > installation have separate product ID( product Key) for each OS.? There was discussion on how this was best to be implemented in this thread. [Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet Started just a few days ago, however not archived on sf yet. Some people like Shad, and Pat and myself have already done this, and use it regularly. Discussion is about how to make it easily accessible to the user. > 4. Can > the HW specific drivers be taken out of the OS installation point ( from > $OEM$ bla bla). so that I do not have duplicate HW drivers for each OS. > Most of these drivers are common to most OSes. > I have moved this out, of $OEM$. Have a directory called drivers, which has subdirs with the relevant driver packs. In the same file that I keep the product keys, and build details, I keep the driver folder name. My config.pl script copies all the folders onto c: in a drivers directory, and then runs oem_pnp_dirs on that directory, and inserts relevant folders into unattend.txt I have posted config.pl, and the pc file. Plus a small patch in the thread I listed above. [Unattended] Obtaining values from a spreadsheet > Will be back with more questions and ideas. > Thanx to all ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
