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Compaq Deskpro EX Supplementary Manual
Compaq Deskpro EX Supplementary Manual

Compaq Deskpro EX Supplementary Manual

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March 2001
Prepared By
Commercial Desktop
Product Marketing
Communications
Compaq Computer
Corporation
C
O N T E N T S
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
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Summary of Contents for Compaq Deskpro EX

  • Page 1 Commercial Desktop Network Installation of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Product Marketing Communications on All Compaq Deskpro EN and Deskpro EX Series of Personal Compaq Computer Computers Using Microsoft Tools Corporation This paper provides a solution to the ongoing challenge of creating and deploying a...
  • Page 2 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) 14A4-0201A-USEN...
  • Page 3 HITE APER (cont.) C O P E A N D S S U M P T I O N S 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...
  • Page 4 HITE APER (cont.) Install the operating system, device drivers and other software from the network. Conventions Distribution share refers to the combination of the operating system, 3 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.
  • Page 5 HITE APER (cont.) I S T R I B U T I O N H A R E R O F E S S I O N A L P E R A T I N G 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.
  • Page 6 HITE APER (cont.) A C H I N E P E C I F I C There are no machine-specific items to configure for Windows 2000 Professional. N S T A L L I N G L U G A N D 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...
  • Page 7 HITE APER (cont.) N T E G R A T I N G E T W O R K General Process 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.
  • Page 8 HITE APER (cont.) 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. Create a \TEXTMODE subfolder in the distribution share: \I386\$oem$\Textmode Copy the files supplied by the device vendor to the \I386\$oem$\Textmode folder Copy or create a TXTSETUP.OEM file in the \I386\$oem$\Textmode directory.
  • Page 9 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X 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.
  • Page 10 HITE APER (cont.) $oem$\$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.
  • Page 11 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X DRIVER SIGNING POLICY AND PLUG AND PLAY DEVICE DRIVERS If you intend to use any updated drivers, you must first verify that they have a valid signature. If they do not, the driver being installed will depend on: The driver signing policy you indicate in your answer file.
  • Page 12 HITE APER (cont.) Check the SETUPAPI.LOG for information on how Windows 2000 processed the driver. § To view the SETUPAPI.LOG file, go to %windir%\SETUPAPI.LOG. To expand the § SETUPAPI.LOG file to provide the most information, see “Increasing the Verbosity of the SETUPAPI.LOG”...
  • Page 13 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X UNATTEND.TXT (Sample file) ; Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter ; (c) 1994 - 1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ; Sample Unattended Setup Answer File ; This file contains information about how to automate the installation ;...
  • Page 14 HITE APER (cont.) [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP JoinDomain= CreateComputerAccountDomain= DomainAdmin= DomainAdminPassword= [OEM_Ads] Background=BACKGRND.BMP [Data] UseBIOSToBoot=1 [GUIRunOnce] WELCOFF="c:\winnt\regedit /s c:\WELC_OFF.REG" SP1="C:\W2ksp1\i386\update\UPDATE.EXE -u -z -n -o " 14A4-0201A-USEN...
  • Page 15 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X CMDLINES.TXT (Sample File) [Commands] " C:\W2ksp1\i386\update\UPDATE.EXE -u -z -n -o" "C:\scg\SETUP.EXE -s" ".\regedit /s POWER.REG" 14A4-0201A-USEN...
  • Page 16 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X TXTSETUP.OEM (Sample File) [COMPAQ] [Disks] d1= "Adaptec 7800 Family Manager Set", \disk1, \ [Defaults] scsi= OEMSCSI [scsi] a78NT40= "Adaptec AIC-78xx PCI SCSI Controller" [Files.scsi.a78NT40] driver= d1, aic78xx.sys, AIC78XX inf= d1, aic78xx.inf 14A4-0201A-USEN...
  • Page 17: Remote Rom Flash

    HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X Remote ROM Flash The Remote ROM Flash Utilities SoftPAQ contains utilities to update the system ROM and set the administrator password for setup without interaction. These can be used either by integrating them into the boot diskette used to set up new machines or in conjunction with remote setup utilities such as LCM.
  • Page 18 HITE APER (cont.) P P E N D I X Additional Enhancements for Distributed Share Installations NOTE: For additional information on any of these features, reference the Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Deployment Resource documents located at http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/library/resources/reskit/default.asp Automatically Logging on After an Unattended Installation AutoLogon Value: Yes | No Sets up the computer to automatically log on once with the Administrator account if set to Yes.
  • Page 19 HITE APER (cont.) Using [GUIRunOnce] to Execute Commands After Logging into Windows 2000 Professional This feature allows Windows 2000 Professional to automatically execute additional commands (i.e. batch files, Setup installs, etc.) upon logging into the operating system. [GuiRunOnce] This section contains a list of commands to be executed the first time a user logs on to the computer after GUI-mode Setup has completed.
  • Page 20 HITE APER (cont.) On the Registry menu, click Load Hive. In the Load Hive dialog box, go to D:\Winnt\System32\config\ and click SOFTWARE.SAV. When prompted for a key name, type _SW.SAV. In the Registry Editor, in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine dialog box, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, click _SW.SAV.