Compaq Deskpro EX Manual

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CONTENTS

Scope and

Assumptions...................3

Process Overview,

Conventions, Other

Documentation................3

Distribution Share

Setup – Windows

2000 Professional

Operating System............5

Service Pack 1.................5

Machine-Specific

Information......................6

Installing Plug and

Play Drivers.....................6

Integrating Video

Drivers ............................6

Integrating Network

Interface Card

(NIC) Drivers ...................7

Integrating Audio

Drivers ............................7

Integrating Chipset

Drivers ............................7

Appendix A......................9

Appendix B....................11

Tips for Hardware

Preinstallation...............11

Appendix C....................13

Appendix C....................15

Appendix D....................16

Appendix E....................17

Appendix F....................18

Compaq Guide to PC Deployment

Network Installation of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

on All Compaq Deskpro EN and Deskpro EX Series of Personal

Computers Using Microsoft Tools

This paper provides a solution to the ongoing challenge of creating and deploying a

corporate software image, including the operating system, hardware-specific device

drivers and value-added software applications. It describes the procedure for setting up

and initiating an unattended network installation of Windows 2000 Professional on

Compaq Deskpro EN and Deskpro EX Series of Personal Computers.

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NOTICE

Compaq, the Compaq logo, Armada, Deskpro Registered in U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. iPAQ is

a trademark of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. in the United States and other countries.

Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United

States and other countries.

Intel, Pentium, Intel Inside, and Celeron are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and

other countries.

All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Compaq shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. The

information in this document is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind and is subject to change

without notice. The warranties for Compaq products are set forth in the express limited warranty

statements accompanying such products. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an

additional warranty.

Compaq service tool software, including associated documentation, is the property of and contains

confidential technology of Compaq Computer Corporation. Service customer is hereby licensed to

use the software only for activities directly relating to the delivery of, and only during the term of,

the applicable services delivered by Compaq or its authorized service provider. Customer may not

modify or reverse engineer, remove, or transfer the software or make the software or any resultant

diagnosis or system management data available to other parties without Compaq’s or its

authorized service provider’s consent. Upon termination of the services, customer will, at

Compaq’s or its service provider’s option, destroy or return the software and associated

documentation in its possession.

Compaq Guide to PC Deployment

Network Installation of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on All

Compaq Deskpro EN and Deskpro EX Series of Personal Computers

Using Microsoft Tools

North America First Edition (March 2001)

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SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS

This Guide provides the following information:

• PC Deployment Process overview

• Distribution Share setup for Windows 2000 Professional, including:

-Operating system-specific configuration

-Hardware-specific configuration

-Value-add software configuration

• Overview of the unattended installation environment for Windows 2000 Professional

• Sample UNATTEND.TXT document

• Sample CMDLINES.TXT document

• Sample TXTSETUP.OEM document

The following assumptions are made in this paper:

• You understand how to create a network boot diskette used to access the Microsoft Windows

2000 Professional distribution share. (Refer to “Network Installation of Microsoft Windows

on Compaq Deskpro EP and Deskpro EN Series of Personal Computers Using the Multi-NIC

Boot Utility,” Document NA141A/1098, located on the Compaq Web site at

http://207.18.199.3/support/techpubs/whitepapers/na141a1098.html.)

• You know what hardware must be supported.

• You can access the Web and download the appropriate SoftPAQs containing the device driver

software from www.compaq.com/support. Instructions for downloading and extracting

SoftPAQs are provided at www.compaq.com/support.

• The deployment team has access to the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit.

• Each client computer has a licensed copy of Windows 2000 Professional.

PROCESS OVERVIEW,CONVENTIONS,OTHER

DOCUMENTATION

High level overview of the process

The following steps outline the network installation process:

1. Copy the Windows 2000 Professional operating system (and associated Service Packs if

applicable) to a designated location on the server.

2. Create the unattended setup directory structure as shown in Appendix A of this White Paper.

3. Download the appropriate SoftPAQs and run them to extract device drivers into the correct

folders (see hardware component sections of this white paper for more detailed information).

4. Modify the UNATTEND.TXT file as required.

5. Set up a network share for the operating system, device drivers, and other software to be

installed.

6. Boot client computer to the shared network directory.

7. Perform a Remote ROM Flash (optional). Refer to Appendix E for more details.

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8. Install the operating system, device drivers and other software from the network.

Conventions

Distribution share refers to the combination of the operating system, 3rd party device drivers and

any value-add software in a centralized location.

servername refers to the name of the server containing the distribution share.

sharename refers to the name of the share established for accessing the distribution share on the

server.

References to Microsoft Documentation

Use the following resources to help you deploy Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional on Compaq

Deskpro Series client systems:

• The Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit. This is very useful for understanding

the deployment strategies described in this paper. It gives specific information on the options

used to automate the installation of Windows 2000 Professional.

• Microsoft’s Knowledge Base, located on the Web at http://support.microsoft.com/support,

contains articles describing known installation issues and solutions.

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Deployment Resource documents, located at

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/resources/reskit/default.asp.

• Hardware and Software Compatibility List, located on the Web at

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat.

Hard Drive and Hardware Preparation

You should make file system decisions before installing the operating system. Microsoft Windows

2000 Professional supports FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.

Ensure that all factory-installed Compaq hardware is properly connected in each target computer.

Refer to the hardware documentation included with all Compaq Deskpro Series computers if you

have any questions regarding how the hardware is installed in the system.

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DISTRIBUTION SHARE SETUP –WINDOWS 2000

PROFESSIONAL OPERATING SYSTEM

Copy the entire \I386 directory and its subdirectories from the Windows 2000 Professional CD to

the hard disk of the server from which Windows 2000 Professional will be installed. Some

modifications may need to be made to the distribution directory because not all target systems will

require every directory of a distribution directory structure (Refer to Appendix A for layout of the

directory structure). From the target PC, establish a connection to the distribution share and from

within the \I386 directory, use the following command to invoke the installation process:

WINNT /U:\\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\UNATTEND.TXT

/S:\\servername\sharename\I386

Where

/U[:] refers to an unattended installation using an optional script file (requires /s)

/S[:] refers to the source location of the Windows 2000 Professional files. For example:

WINNT.EXE /u:n:\w2k\I386\$oem$\UNATTEND.TXT /s:n:\w2k\I386

NOTE: For a complete listing of WINNT.EXE and WINNT32.EXE commands, see

Windows 2000 Help. Or, at a command prompt, switch to the \i386 folder on the Windows 2000

product CD, and then type: winnt /? or winnt32 /?

SERVICE PACK 1

To add the files from the Service Pack 1 release to the unattended installation, complete the

following steps:

1. Copy the entire \I386 directory from the Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 1 CD onto

the distribution share.

NOTE: Since an \I386 folder already exists on the distribution share, you may want to create a

new folder for these files (e.g., \W2KSP1).

2. Move the \W2KSP1 directory into the \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1 directory. This

will copy this folder down to the local hard drive during the installation process and it will

remain there following setup.

3. Insert the following line in the [GUIRunOnce] section of the UNATTEND.TXT file:

[GUIRunOnce]

SP1=" C:\W2ksp1\i386\update\UPDATE.EXE -u -z -n -o"

Optional: Instead of using the UNATTEND.TXT file, the CMDLINES.TXT file can be used with

the following syntax:

[Commands]

" C:\W2ksp1\i386\update\UPDATE.EXE -u -z -n -o"

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MACHINE-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

There are no machine-specific items to configure for Windows 2000 Professional.

INSTALLING PLUG AND PLAY DRIVERS

Since Windows 2000 supports Plug and Play detection, it is relatively easy to install third party

drivers for non-boot devices (Audio, Video, NIC, Chipset, etc.) Refer to the Driver Signing Policy

in Appendix B for more information on how the Windows 2000 operating system selects the

optimal driver for any Plug and Play device.

Steps for integrating Plug and Play Devices

1. In the \$OEM$ subfolder of the distribution share, create a folder (and/or subfolders) for any

Plug and Play drivers and their associated files (catalog, INF and drivers), for example:

\\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs

NOTE: The PnPDrvrs folder can be renamed to reference the specific devices being installed. For

example, you could create a \Drivers\NIC folder for network card drivers and a \Drivers\AUDIO

for sound card drivers.

2. Modify the UNATTEND.TXT file by adding an OEMPNPDRIVERSPATH parameter to

point to the driver files. Using the example from above the following entry would need to be

created:

[Unattended]

OemPreinstall = Yes

OemPnPDriversPath = “PnPDrvrs\Nic;PnPDrvrs\Audio"

NOTE: Setup will add the following in the registry:

%systemdrive% to each of the folder names

path for each subfolder to the Plug and Play device search path

3. Set the OemPreinstall=YES parameter in the [Unattended] section of the UNATTEND.TXT.

INTEGRATING VIDEO DRIVERS

General Process

1. Download each required SoftPAQ to its own directory. For SoftPAQs containing Plug and

Play drivers, execute the SoftPAQ with the –flat switch as a command line option. This will

extract the SoftPAQ out into a flat (single) directory.

2. Copy all of the driver files (INF, CAT and SYS files) from the flat directory into the

distribution share directory (i.e. \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs).

3. Refer to the Installing Plug and Play Drivers section above to complete the setup for the

driver.

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INTEGRATING NETWORK INTERFACE CARD (NIC) DRIVERS

General Process

1. Download each required SoftPAQ to its own directory. For SoftPAQs containing Plug and

Play drivers, execute the SoftPAQ with the –flat switch as a command line option. This will

extract the SoftPAQ out into a flat (single) directory.

2. Copy all of the driver files (INF, CAT and SYS files) from the flat directory into the

distribution share directory (i.e. \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs).

3. Refer to the Installing Plug and Play Drivers section above to complete the setup for the

driver.

INTEGRATING AUDIO DRIVERS

General Process

1. Download each required SoftPAQ to its own directory. For SoftPAQs containing Plug and

Play drivers, execute the SoftPAQ with the –flat switch as a command line option. This will

extract the SoftPAQ out into a flat (single) directory.

2. Copy all of the driver files (INF, CAT and SYS files) from the flat directory into the

distribution share directory (i.e. \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs).

3. Refer to the Installing Plug and Play Drivers section above to complete the setup for the

driver.

INTEGRATING CHIPSET DRIVERS

General Process

1. Download each required SoftPAQ to its own directory. For SoftPAQs containing Plug and

Play drivers, execute the SoftPAQ with the –flat switch as a command line option. This will

extract the SoftPAQ out into a flat (single) directory.

2. Copy all of the driver files (INF, CAT and SYS files) from the flat directory into the

distribution share directory (i.e. \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs).

3. Refer to the Installing Plug and Play Drivers section above to complete the setup for the

driver.

Specific Errata

Intel 8xx Chipset Support

1. Download each required SoftPAQ to its own directory. For SoftPAQs containing Plug and

Play drivers, execute the SoftPAQ with the –flat switch as a command line option. This will

extract the SoftPAQ out into a flat (single) directory.

2. If in Windows, exit to a DOS box and run the setup file with the –a –a switches (example:

“C:\chipset\SETUP.EXE –a –a”. These switches will layout all the chipset INF files in the

“C:\Program Files\Intel\InfInst” directory. All the INF’s will be broken down by chipset

architecture and OS type.

3. Copy all of the required driver files (INF, CAT and SYS files) from the flat directory into the

distribution share directory (i.e. \\servername\sharename\I386\$oem$\$1\PnPDrvrs).

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4. Refer to the Installing Plug and Play Drivers section above to complete the setup for the

driver.

Integrating Mass Storage Drivers

Use the following information to install mass storage controllers not included with the Windows

2000 operating system.

1. Create a \TEXTMODE subfolder in the distribution share: \I386\$oem$\Textmode

2. Copy the files supplied by the device vendor to the \I386\$oem$\Textmode folder

3. Copy or create a TXTSETUP.OEM file in the \I386\$oem$\Textmode directory. This file

contains descriptions of all the OEM-supplied drivers listed in this section and includes

instructions on how to install them. This file must exist if the [OEMBootFiles] section exists

in the UNATTEND.TXT file.

4. Add the following lines to the UNATTEND.TXT file:

[Unattended]

ComputerType = “HALDescription", OEM

[OEMBootFiles]

OEMHal.sys

Txtsetup.oem

NOTE: TXTSETUP.OEM and all files listed in it (drivers and/or .INF files) must also be listed in

the [OEMBootFiles] section of the UNATTEND.TXT file.

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APPENDIX A

Unattended Setup Environment

To install Windows 2000 Professional on multiple computers across a network, a Distribution

Share directory needs to be created. Distribution directories are the central location of all files

needed for a network install, including all Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) additions.

Following is an example of the directory structure of a Distribution Share:

\I386 \$oem$ \Textmode

\$$

\$1

\$1\Pnpdvrs

\drive_letter

Distribution Directory Structure

$oem$

This directory contains the subdirectories needed to support an unattended installation of

applications, drivers, etc. not included on the Windows 2000 Professional retail CD. This directory

can also include the optional file CMDLINES.TXT, which contains a list of commands to be run

during GUI Mode Setup. (Refer to the Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit for detailed

information).

$oem$\Textmode

This directory contains the hardware-dependent files that Setup Loader and text-mode Setup install

on the destination computer during the Text Mode portion of the Windows 2000 Professional

install. The files for SCSI, Keyboard, Video or Pointing Device Drivers or HALs that are not

included with Windows 2000 Professional retail version must appear in this directory. This

directory should also contain a standard TXTSETUP.OEM file. This file contains pointers to all

the files required to install these components. Only one TXTSETUP.OEM file can exist in this

directory.

NOTE: TXTSETUP.OEM and all files listed in it (HALs and drivers) must also be listed in the

[OEMBootFiles] section of the UNATTEND.TXT file.

$oem$\$$

This directory contains the system files, either new or replacements for retail files, that are copied

to the various subdirectories when Windows 2000 Professional is installed. The structure of this

directory must match the structure of a standard Windows 2000 Professional installation, where

\$oem$\$$ matches \%Windir%, \$oem$\$$\System32 matches \%Windir%\System32, and so on.

For example:

\I386\$oem$\$$\system32\drivers\myscsi.sys

would be copied to:

Winnt\system32\drivers\myscsi.sys

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$oem$\$1

This folder is equivalent to the %systemdrive% environment variable. For example, if the

operating system is installed on drive C, \$oem$\$1 would refer back to drive C. The use of this

variable makes it possible to rearrange drive letters without creating errors in applications that

point to a hard-coded drive letter.

$oem$\$1\PnPdrvrs

This folder contains additional Plug and Play drivers not included with the Windows 2000

Professional retail CD. The PnPdrvrs name can be replaced by any eight-character or less name.

NOTE: The $oem$\$1\PnPdrvrs folder replaces the \DISPLAY and \NET folders used in the

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 distribution share installation.

$oem$\drive_letter

This directory contains a subdirectory structure that is copied during Text Mode Setup to the root

of the corresponding drive in the target computer. Any subdirectory of this directory will be copied

to the local (destination) hard drive and will remain there following the setup process.

Using an Answer File (UNATTEND.TXT)

Answer files are text files that automate user responses to questions during the installation process.

The answer file is specified with the /U:<answer file> option with the winnt or winnt32

command. Any legal file name can be used for an answer file in place of UNATTEND.TXT. An

answer file can be created by editing a copy of the UNATTEND.TXT included on both the

Windows 2000 Professional CD and the Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit. Refer to the

Resource Kit for more information on creating an answer file.

Using CMDLINES.TXT

This file resides in the $OEM$ directory and is used for installing files included in the $OEM$

subdirectories, including those directories copied down to the local hard drive. By listing the

installation command within the CMDLINES.TXT file, the files will get installed automatically at

the end of the Setup process. IMPORTANT: The installation command must be surrounded by

double quotation marks. ALL machines using the distribution share will execute any command

entered in this file, even if the command doesn’t apply for a particular system (i.e., installing a

video driver).

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