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- ** VIA Rhine Family Fast Ethernet Adapter
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- ** Unattended Installation on Windows XP
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- Introduction:
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- This document shows you how to unattended install network adapter driver
- under Windows XP. This is achieved by setting the options in the
- Unattend.txt file.
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- Contents of the Subdirectory:
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- UNATTEND.TXT The sample answering file for Windows XP.
- UNATDWXP.TXT This file.
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- Installation:
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- The following installation procedures shows how to unattended install
- Windows XP and network adapter driver on multiple computers over a
- network. Each computers consists one Network Adapter.
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- 1. Create one shared distribution folder; in our example, the shared
- distribution folder is named Z:\UNATDWXP. The shared distribution
- folder resides on the server which the destination computers can
- connect.
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- 2. Copy the \I386 folder from the Windows XP Installation CD-ROM to
- Z:\UNATDWXP. Maintain the same directory structure as on the CD-ROM.
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- 3. Make folders beneath Z:\UNATDWXP\I386 as follows:
- \$OEM$\$$\Help
- \$OEM$\$$\System32
- \$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\Fetndis
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- 4. From the Configuration and Drivers Diskette provided with the adapter,
- copy all the files in \wxp into Z:\UNATDWXP\i386\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\Fetndis
- directory and copy Unattend.txt from the Diskette into the shared
- directory Z:\UNATDWXP. Make sure that Unattend.txt has the latest
- changes you made for customizing the unattended installation.
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- 5. Make sure that you have a copy of network bootable MS-DOS floppy and
- the boot the system which you want to unattended install with this floppy
- and connected to the shared network directory (Z:\UNATDWXP).
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- 6. Run the command as,
- Z:\UNATDWXP\i386\winnt /u:Z:\UNATDWXP\Unattend.txt /s:Z:\UNATDWXP /t:C
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- 7. By adopting the above procedure, the setup runs the installation in
- unattended mode and also detects the plug and play network adpaters. All
- driver files are copied from the shared directory to the target system
- directories and continues installation of the OS and network adapters
- without user intervention.
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