Oempreinstall Sysprep

December 22, 2011 by Admin No comments

Oempreinstall Sysprep

Oempreinstall Sysprep

Now that we have the pxe boot image we need to make sure when we deploy our image it copies over the required drivers. To do this you need to make the following directory structure. Replace the word IMAGEGROUP with the actual Image Group name you made, replace IMAGENAME with the Image Name. The Image Name should be the name of the image file i.e. in my case xp-pro-vlk.wim so the Image Name for me is xp-pro-vlk.

C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1
C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Drivers
C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Sysprep
C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Sysprep\i386
C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Sysprep\i386\$OEM$

Obviously under the C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Drivers folder you copy all of your drivers.

Under C:\RemoteInstall\Images\IMAGEGROUP\IMAGENAME\$OEM$\$1\Sysprep is where you can put your custom sysprep.inf file. This lets you do some important stuff for example the following is a small part of my sysprep.inf file which tells the mini setup where to find the drivers. I just happen to use sub-folders but you do not need to:

sysprep.inf

I can't for the life of me get windows to locate and load drivers for after I sysprep. The drivers are all copied to the local HDD in c:\Support\Drivers\D430\ with subfolders such as chipset, video, nic, etc. All files are extracted and the inf files are present in the path.

I use "sysprep.exe –reseal –mini" then once complete reboot the machine.

The machine boots up goes through the usual unattended setup as per the sysprep.inf but when I log into windows the "found new hardware wizard" prompts me for all the hardware instead of automatically installing.

Here is my sysprep.inf, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

;SetupMgrTag

[Unattended]
OemSkipEula=Yes
InstallFilesPath=C:\sysprep\i386
OEMPreinstall=Yes
OemPnPDriversPath=\Support\Drivers\D430\Chipset\All;\Support\Drivers\D430\Audio\WDM;\Support\Drivers\D430\Modem;\Support\Drivers\D430\NIC\Win2K_XP;\Support\Drivers\D430\Video\Graphics;\Support\Drivers\D430\Video\HDMI;
UpdateHAL = "ACPIAPIC_MP,%WINDIR%\Inf\Hal.inf"

[GuiUnattended]
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=290
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
ProductID=
FullName=
OrgName=

[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
vrefresh=75
Xresolution=1024
YResolution=768

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=64
Dialing=Tone
AreaCode=04
LongDistanceAccess="9"

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
SystemLocale=1409:00001409
UserLocale=1409:00001409
UserLocale_DefaultUser=1409:00001409
InputLocale=1409:00001409
InputLocale_DefaultUser=1409:00001409


[SetupMgr]
DistFolder=C:\sysprep\i386
DistShare=windist

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup=workgroup

[OEM_Ads]
Logo=logo.bmp

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Sysprep]
BuildMassStorageSection=Yes

[SysprepMassStorage]
windows service pack 2 network install
pkgstoinstallnotup