Unattended Setup For Pec 4/di controler using RIS

Hi,

I am having the same issue. Have you come up with a solution to this as yet?

Bye, Kev.

Hi,

We have also hit this same problem today when trying to image PE1750 servers with a Windows 2003 flat image.

As far as I am aware we have the correct drivers in the i386 directory for the image (mraid35x.sys). We have also tried creating  $oem$\$1\Drivers\Raid and putting the drivers in this, and editing the sif setup files appropriately. Got this method to work for Network cards (with some extra tweaks because they are broadcom cards), but no success with Raid drivers.

Any ideas or help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Has there been any update on this?  I've got the same issue on a PE2850.  I've got the network card recognized, now, by RIS, but I cannot get RIS to see the RAID controller for anything.  I've followed Microsoft's KB articles step-by-step, word-for-word on how to add OEM PnP devices, but it refuses to go on the textmode setup - still says it cannot find a hard drive to set the system up.  I know the RAID controller and drives are functional, as I've booted the system with the Dell CD just to verify functionality.

Any updates or ideas??

Thank you,

Mike

I am having an issue getting RIS to work with the PERC 4e/Si on the PE1850.  The following works PE2600, PE1750 & PE2850 with the following Structure

\base image\i386\$oem$\textmode

\base image\$oem$\$1\drviers\nic

\base image\$oem$\$1\drviers\raid

\base image\$oem$\$$\oemdir

\base image\$oem$\texmode

If anyone has any clues on RIS with the PE1850, please let me know...

Thanx,

Chris Jeffares

chris.jeffares@hhss.ne.gov

Tried all those myself and though they 'seem' to load up it all goes horribly wrong after the text mode portion of setup.  I get a BSOD STOP 0x000000BB error.  I haven't been able to work around this as yet and have since given up and done all my 1850's manually from the Server Assistant CD's.

Of course this implies that you can at least script an unattended install since that's what the Dell CD is doing, just not via RIS, so you have no requirement for textmode NIC drivers.

Here's a sample from the unattend.txt file that the CD uses:

[Unattended]
NtUpgrade=no
OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=no
FileSystem=ConvertNTFS
OemPreinstall=yes
ConfirmHardware=yes
;ComputerType="Dell PowerEdge Server","OEM"
ExtendOemPartition=1
OemFilesPath="c:\dell\$oem$"
OemPnPDriversPath="Dell\PnP\cs\il;Dell\PnP\v\atir;Dell\PnP\m\co;Dell\PnP\Storage;Dell\PnP\Storage\Mraid35x;Dell\PnP\N\Intel;Dell\PnP\N\BC;Dell\PnP\Mgmt"
TargetPath=\windows
OemSkipEula=yes

[MassStorageDrivers]
"DELL PERC 2/3/4 RAID Controller Driver"=OEM

[OEMBootFiles]
txtsetup.oem
mraid35x.sys
Oemsetup.inf
nodev.inf
percraid.cat

You also need to have a txtsetup.oem file with the following:

[Disks]
LSId1 = "DELL PERC 2/3/4 RAID Controller Driver", \mraid35x.sys, \

[Defaults]
scsi = DELLPERC

[Computer]

[scsi]
DELLPERC = "DELL PERC 2/3/4 RAID Controller Driver", mraid35x.sys

[Files.scsi.DELLPERC]
driver = LSId1, mraid35x.sys, mraid35x
inf = LSId1, oemsetup.inf, mraid35x
inf = LSId1, nodev.inf
catalog = LSId1, percraid.cat

I haven't looked at the folders that this uses as yet due to work considerations here so if someone else could clarify whats here we may be able to resolve this.

:)

Lewis