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Windows* 2000 Push Install: Intel® Network Adapters User Guide

Introduction
Setting up an install directory on the file server
Deployment methods
Microsoft documentation for unattended installations of Windows* 2000
Sample unattend.txt file for Windows 2000 Professional
Directory structure for unattended installation files

Introduction

A "Push", or unattended installation of Windows 2000 provides a means for network administrators to easily install Windows 2000 on similarly equipped systems. The network administrator can create a bootable diskette that will automatically log into a central server and install the operating system from an image of the Windows 2000 installation directory stored on that server. This document provides instructions for a basic unattended installation of Windows 2000 that includes the installation of drivers for the Intel PRO/100 and Intel PRO/1000 adapters.

The elements necessary for the Windows 2000 unattended installation are:

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Setting up an install directory on the file server

The server must be set up with a distribution folder that holds the required Windows 2000 files and which clients can reach when connecting via TCP/IP or IPX.

For illustration purposes, the examples on this page use the network share D:\PUSH2K. To create this share, create a directory on the server, (EX: D:\PUSH2K) and create an I386 directory beneath it. Next, use the "My Computer" applet in Windows 2000 to locate the D:\PUSH2K folder. Right-click on the folder and select Sharing. Select Share this folder, then give it a share name (EX: PUSH2K). This share name will be used to connect to this directory from the remote target systems. By default, the permissions for this share will be for "Everyone" to have "Full Control". Adjust permissions as necessary and click OK.

To prepare the distribution folder:

  1. Copy the \I386 folder from the Windows 2000 CD to D:\PUSH2K. Use Windows Explorer or XCOPY in order to maintain the same directory structure as on the CD. When the copy is complete, the Windows 2000 installation files should be in the D:\PUSH2K\I386 directory.
  2. Copy Unattend.txt from the installation media (found in \APPS\SETUP\PUSH\WIN2K) into the shared directory D:\PUSH2K\I386.
  3. Edit the Unattend.txt file with Notepad or another text-editor to include your customizations. At a minimum you should change the items in the [UserData] section of the file.
  4. Create the driver install directory structure and copy the driver files to it.
NOTE: The PUSHCOPY.BAT file provided with the drivers in the \APPS\SETUP\PUSH directory will copy the appropriate files for the installation. PUSHCOPY also copies the components needed to perform the automated installations contained in the [GuiRunOnce] section of the sample UNATTEND.TXT file. These include an unattended installation of Intel PROSet.

Example:

From a Windows 2000 command prompt:
e: (where e: is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive)
cd \APPS\SETUP\PUSH (you must be in the \Windows\Push directory to run PUSHCOPY)
pushcopy D:\PUSH2K\I386 w2k

The above command will create the $OEM$ directory structure and copy all the necessary files to install the driver and Intel PROSet. However, Intel PROSet will not be installed unless the line:

; Command1="c:\drivers\net\Intel\Windows\Drivers\IA32\Proset.msi /qn"

is uncommented from unattend.txt.

As an alternative to using the PUSHCOPY.BAT file method the following steps can be used to create the required directory structure for unattended installation of the Intel PRO/1000 drivers. Note that this method does not copy the files specified in the [GuiRunOnce] section of the sample UNATTEND.TXT. If this method is used, the entries in this section should be commented out.

Make folders beneath the new \i386 as follows:

\$OEM$\$$\System32
\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\Intel

From the files provided with the Intel adapter run (from the makedisk directory):

makedisk w2k z:\PUSH2K\i386\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\Intel

Alternative: run makedisk\makedisk w2k a: where a: is the floppy and then copy the contents of the floppy into  Z:\PUSH2K\i386\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\Intel. Use Xcopy /s or Windows Explorer to maintain the proper directory structure.

See Directory structure for unattended installation files for more information about the directory structure and file layout of the $OEM$ directory.

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Deployment Methods

Make sure that you have a copy of an NDIS 2 network bootable MS-DOS* floppy that will connect to the Z:\PUSH2K directory and use it to boot the destination system (the one you want to push install to) and connect to this shared network directory.

Run the command: (assumes prompt at \\Server\PUSH2K\i386):

winnt /u:Z:\I386\unattend.txt /s:Z:\I386 /t:c (where Z: equals mapped drive)

NOTE: In the above procedure, setup runs the installation in unattended mode and also detects the plug and play network adapters. All driver files are copied from the shared directory to the target system directories and installation of the OS and Network Adapters continues without user intervention.

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Microsoft documentation for unattended installations of Windows 2000

For a complete description of the parameters supported in Unattend.txt see the UNATTEND.DOC document in the DEPLOY.CAB cabinet file on the Windows 2000 CD. To obtain the document, use Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater to open DEPLOY.CAB in the \SUPPORT\TOOLS directory on the installation media.

For deployment suggestions using a Windows 2000 RIS server and PXE boot see the Boot Agent User Guide.

To configure and install the driver set on the RIS Server see the knowledge base article Q246184 on Microsoft's support site at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q246/1/84.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

General information on how to preinstall an OEM driver set for Windows 2000 can be found in knowledge base article Q254078: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q254/0/78.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0

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Sample Unattend.txt file for Windows 2000

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
OemPnPDriversPath=\drivers\net\INTEL
TargetPath=\WINNT
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
Filesystem=LeaveAlone
OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=*
AutoLogon=Yes
AutoLogonCount=1
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=4
OemSkipWelcome=1

; At a minimum you should update the [UserData] section.

[UserData]
FullName=Name
OrgName=Organization
ComputerName=ComputerName
ProductID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

[GuiRunOnce]

; command to install Intel PROSet - uncomment to install PROSet after push install
; Command2="c:\drivers\net\INTEL\Proset.msi /qn"

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

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Directory structure for unattended installation files

The following directory structure is created by PUSHCOPY.BAT to place the files necessary for the installation of the driver and PROSet. The directory D:\PUSH2K refers to the location of the files from the \I386 directory on the Windows 2000 installation CD.

\$oem$\$$\system32
\$oem$\$1\drivers\net\INTEL

(From the Root directory of the installation CD)

NETI557X.INF
E100BW2K.CAT
NET8254X.INF
E1000.CAT

(From the \APPS\SETUP\PUSH\WIN2K directory of the installation CD)

UNATTEND.TXT
PUSHW2K.TXT

(From the \PRO100\WIN2K directory of the installation CD)
; 10/100 specific files:

e100bnt5.inf
e100bnt5.din
e100bnt5.sys
e100bnt5.cat
e100bmsg.dll
intelnic.dll
PROunstl.exe
(From the \PRO100\WIN2K directory of the installation CD)
; Gigabit specific files:

e1000nt5.inf
e1000nt5.din
e1000nt5.sys
e1000nt5.cat
e1000msg.dll

; ANS Files:

anspw2k.inf
ansmw2k.inf
iansmsg.dll
iansw2k.sys
iansw2k.cat
; Intel PROSet Files:

proset.msi
s8023Dev.reg
; To activate the Intel PROSet installation once the above directories have
; been created and populated, uncomment the line:

; Command2="c:\drivers\net\INTEL\Windows\Drivers\IA32\Proset.msi /qn /s"
; in the [GuiRunOnce] section of Unattend.txt

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