Windows 2003 RIS OemPreinstall Problems

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I am trying to building a RIS image that is full automated but I am having
one screen that will appear for user interaction.

The screen is after the formatting and coping files and the GUI part of the
install starts. The screen says, "Welcome to the Windows XP Setup Wizard"

I have found that this only happens when I have the OemPreinstall=Yes, set
in the Unatteneded section of the restndrd.sif file. If I turn this setting
to =Off then the prompt does not happen but I do not get my oem drivers to
install.

Please let me know what I need to do to remove this prompt from my install.
Here is a copy of my ristndrd.sif:

[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="1"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
floppyless="1"
OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
OriTyp="4"
LocalSourceOnCD=1

[SetupData]
OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect"

SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
ComputerType=Retail
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\745\BroadcomDrivers\745\VideoDrivers\745\AudioDrivers\745\Chipset
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
FileSystem=LeaveAlone
NtUpgrade=No
OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=REMOVED
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=%TIMEZONE%
OemSkipWelcomes=1

[UserData]
ProductKey=REMOVED
FullName=REMOVED
OrgName=REMOVED
ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%

[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
Xresolution=1280
YResolution=1024
Vrefresh=60

[SetupMgr]
DistFolder=C:\windist
DistShare=windist

[Identification]
JoinDomain=REMOVED
DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
ProcessPageSections=Yes

[RemoteInstall]
Repartition=Yes

[OSChooser]
Description="Windows Professional XP SP2"
Help="This will install Windows Professional in a standard configuration."
LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
ImageType=Flat
 
On Jul 19, 4:10 pm, michael <mich...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I am trying to building a RIS image that is full automated but I am having
> one screen that will appear for user interaction.
>
> The screen is after the formatting and coping files and the GUI part of the
> install starts. The screen says, "Welcome to the Windows XP Setup Wizard"
>
> I have found that this only happens when I have the OemPreinstall=Yes, set
> in the Unatteneded section of the restndrd.sif file. If I turn this setting
> to =Off then the prompt does not happen but I do not get my oem drivers to
> install.
>
> Please let me know what I need to do to remove this prompt from my install.
> Here is a copy of my ristndrd.sif:
>
> [Data]
> AutoPartition=1
> MsDosInitiated="1"
> UnattendedInstall="Yes"
> floppyless="1"
> OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
> OriTyp="4"
> LocalSourceOnCD=1
>
> [SetupData]
> OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect"
>
> SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPA­TH%"
>
> [Unattended]
> UnattendMode=FullUnattended
> ComputerType=Retail
> OemSkipEula=Yes
> OemPreinstall=Yes
> DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
> OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\745\BroadcomDrivers\745\VideoDrivers\745\Audio­Drivers\745\Chipset
> TargetPath=\WINDOWS
> FileSystem=LeaveAlone
> NtUpgrade=No
> OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No
>
> [GuiUnattended]
> AdminPassword=REMOVED
> EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
> OEMSkipRegional=1
> TimeZone=%TIMEZONE%
> OemSkipWelcomes=1
>
> [UserData]
> ProductKey=REMOVED
> FullName=REMOVED
> OrgName=REMOVED
> ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%
>
> [Display]
> BitsPerPel=32
> Xresolution=1280
> YResolution=1024
> Vrefresh=60
>
> [SetupMgr]
> DistFolder=C:\windist
> DistShare=windist
>
> [Identification]
> JoinDomain=REMOVED
> DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes
>
> [Networking]
> InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
> ProcessPageSections=Yes
>
> [RemoteInstall]
> Repartition=Yes
>
> [OSChooser]
> Description="Windows Professional XP SP2"
> Help="This will install Windows Professional in a standard configuration."
> LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
> ImageType=Flat

This may help:

You see, once Setup kicks in, it does a quick check to see if it can
fire up your network card
for some reason, it won't use the TFTP transfer ability built into PXE
to copy the Setup files. As the
NIC is newer than the drivers that Setup knows about, Setup can't
initialize the card, and stops.
But wait-what about that OEMPnPDrivers command? If you put the drivers
for the new NIC
into
$OEM$
and pointed to them with OEMPnPDrivers, then Setup ought to be able to
use those drivers,
right? Well, not exactly. Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 like their
drivers digitally signed, and
many sets of drivers don't come with digital signatures. You can work
around that by adding this line
to the
ristndrd.sif
script:
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
Put that in the [Unattended] section. Then put the NIC drivers on the
RIS server in
$OEM$
as
before, but Microsoft recommends a more specific procedure. Create a
directory
\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC
and put the NIC drivers there. Create an OEMPnpDrivers command that
looks like OemPnp-
DriversPath=\Drivers\Nic in the
ristndrd.sif
file, and then you ought to be able to get RIS
started on a system with a new NIC. (And yes, I
did
recommend that you keep the names of driver
directories short due to the 40-character limit on the
OemPnpDriversPath command, but I wanted
this text to be clear, so I used a longer name. You'd do fine with a
directory named
\$OEM$\$1\DR\NIC
instead of
\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC
..)
Apparently a driver has to be in the
I386
directory for the text mode portion of Setup to see it, so
Microsoft says in Knowledge Base article 246184 that you've got to put
the INF and SYS files from
the network driver into the
I386
directory on the RIS server. You may have to do a bit of experimenting
to find out exactly which SYS and INF files you actually need in the
I386
directory, because
you don't want to
have
to put
oeminfo.inf
in
I386
-after all, it seems like every board comes with an
oeminfo.inf
..
 
I have managed to get the Text Mode to work just fine by adding the NIC to
the i386 folder. My problem seems to be when the GUI Part of the install
starts and shows the user prompt.

Again this only happens when I have the OemPreinstall value set to YES. When
I have this setting turned on my OEM Drivers work and install properly. Also
I do have the DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore. But the User Prompt comes up at the
being of the set.

But when I turn off OemPreinstall=NO, the prompt does not happen but none of
my drivers install.

"Greg O" wrote:

> On Jul 19, 4:10 pm, michael <mich...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to building a RIS image that is full automated but I am having
> > one screen that will appear for user interaction.
> >
> > The screen is after the formatting and coping files and the GUI part of the
> > install starts. The screen says, "Welcome to the Windows XP Setup Wizard"
> >
> > I have found that this only happens when I have the OemPreinstall=Yes, set
> > in the Unatteneded section of the restndrd.sif file. If I turn this setting
> > to =Off then the prompt does not happen but I do not get my oem drivers to
> > install.
> >
> > Please let me know what I need to do to remove this prompt from my install.
> > Here is a copy of my ristndrd.sif:
> >
> > [Data]
> > AutoPartition=1
> > MsDosInitiated="1"
> > UnattendedInstall="Yes"
> > floppyless="1"
> > OriSrc="\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"
> > OriTyp="4"
> > LocalSourceOnCD=1
> >
> > [SetupData]
> > OsLoadOptions="/noguiboot /fastdetect"
> >
> > SetupSourceDevice="\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPA-TH%"
> >
> > [Unattended]
> > UnattendMode=FullUnattended
> > OemSkipEula=Yes
> > OemPreinstall=Yes
> > DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
> > OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\NICDrivers\VideoDrivers\Audio
> > TargetPath=\WINDOWS
> > FileSystem=LeaveAlone
> > NtUpgrade=No
> > OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No
> >
> > [GuiUnattended]
> > AdminPassword=REMOVED
> > EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
> > OEMSkipRegional=1
> > TimeZone=%TIMEZONE%
> > OemSkipWelcomes=1
> >
> > [UserData]
> > ProductKey=REMOVED
> > FullName=REMOVED
> > OrgName=REMOVED
> > ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%
> >
> > [Display]
> > BitsPerPel=32
> > Xresolution=1280
> > YResolution=1024
> > Vrefresh=60
> >
> > [SetupMgr]
> > DistFolder=C:\windist
> > DistShare=windist
> >
> > [Identification]
> > JoinDomain=REMOVED
> > DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes
> >
> > [Networking]
> > InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
> > ProcessPageSections=Yes
> >
> > [RemoteInstall]
> > Repartition=Yes
> >
> > [OSChooser]
> > Description="Windows Professional XP SP2"
> > Help="This will install Windows Professional in a standard configuration."
> > LaunchFile="%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
> > ImageType=Flat
>
> This may help:
>
> You see, once Setup kicks in, it does a quick check to see if it can
> fire up your network card
> for some reason, it won't use the TFTP transfer ability built into PXE
> to copy the Setup files. As the
> NIC is newer than the drivers that Setup knows about, Setup can't
> initialize the card, and stops.
> But wait-what about that OEMPnPDrivers command? If you put the drivers
> for the new NIC
> into
> $OEM$
> and pointed to them with OEMPnPDrivers, then Setup ought to be able to
> use those drivers,
> right? Well, not exactly. Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 like their
> drivers digitally signed, and
> many sets of drivers don't come with digital signatures. You can work
> around that by adding this line
> to the
> ristndrd.sif
> script:
> DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
> Put that in the [Unattended] section. Then put the NIC drivers on the
> RIS server in
> $OEM$
> as
> before, but Microsoft recommends a more specific procedure. Create a
> directory
> \$OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC
> and put the NIC drivers there. Create an OEMPnpDrivers command that
> looks like OemPnp-
> DriversPath=\Drivers\Nic in the
> ristndrd.sif
> file, and then you ought to be able to get RIS
> started on a system with a new NIC. (And yes, I
> did
> recommend that you keep the names of driver
> directories short due to the 40-character limit on the
> OemPnpDriversPath command, but I wanted
> this text to be clear, so I used a longer name. You'd do fine with a
> directory named
> \$OEM$\$1\DR\NIC
> instead of
> \$OEM$\$1\Drivers\NIC
> ..)
> Apparently a driver has to be in the
> I386
> directory for the text mode portion of Setup to see it, so
> Microsoft says in Knowledge Base article 246184 that you've got to put
> the INF and SYS files from
> the network driver into the
> I386
> directory on the RIS server. You may have to do a bit of experimenting
> to find out exactly which SYS and INF files you actually need in the
> I386
> directory, because
> you don't want to
> have
> to put
> oeminfo.inf
> in
> I386
> -after all, it seems like every board comes with an
> oeminfo.inf
> ..
>
>
 
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