Compaq dc7900 Building a Common Image - Developing a common software image for - Page 11

Supporting setup.exe installations If you cannot install a device using an .inf file, you may be forced to rely on setup.exe-based installation. You can either install these devices manually by running the associated setup program, or you can hook these programs to run automatically when the end-user unbundles the common image. There are several ways of accomplishing this. More specifically, you can add the command-line for each setup program in CmdLines.txt or SYSPREP.inf. For information on launching executables from SYSPREP.inf or CmdLines.txt, please see the documentation included in deploy.cab in the support\tools directory on the operating system CD. Using SYSPREP.exe After all customizations have been made and drivers have been pooled in the correct directory structure, the system is ready to be prepared for imaging. This is accomplished by running a Microsoft tool named SYSPREP. To start, create a directory on the root of the ―c:\‖ drive named ―SYSPREP‖. To obtain SYSPREP.exe, insert the operating system CD obtained either from HP or Microsoft into the CD-ROM drive and browse to the ―support\tools‖ directory. A file named deploy.cab will be located in this directory. Double-click on deploy.cab and view the files. Copy the files ―SYSPREP.exe‖ and ―setupcl.exe‖ to the ―c:\SYSPREP‖ directory. Note: The deploy.cab file also contains other useful files. For Windows XP, it contains deploy.chm, a useful guide for creating corporate deployment images and an answer-file reference guide named ref.chm. Creating SYSPREP.inf SYSPREP.inf can be generated by setupmgr.exe, a tool located in deploy.cab. However, HP strongly recommends that you use the SYSPREP.inf provided in Appendix A: Sample Answer Files on p. 22 of this document as a baseline. For advanced customization or functionality, you can make modifications to this copy of SYSPREP.inf. For information on the settings used in this file, please see the documentation included in the deploy.cab file. If you built the Plug-and-play driver path according to this document, the provided SYSPREP.inf will work without modification. Otherwise, you will need to ensure that the directory structure you implemented is reflected in the OEMPnpDriversPath setting in SYSPREP.inf. For Windows XP, please see the deploy.chm file included in deploy.cab. Once SYSPREP.inf has been created, place it in the c:\SYSPREP directory. Required SYSPREP.inf settings for Windows XP The following settings should be used as a baseline in your SYSPREP.inf in order to create a common Windows XP image. You can, of course, tailor this file to suit your