PUSH INSTALLATION OF DRIVER ADAPTER ON WINDOWS 2000 Windows 2000 PUSH Installation: =============================== Contents: I. Introduction II. Setting up an Install Directory on the file server III. Deployment Method I.Introduction The PUSH installations of Network Adapter drivers on windows 2000 is achieved by setting the options in the Unattend.txt file. I. Setting up an Install Directory on the file server Note: The network share Z:\PUSH2K is used here as an example path to the distribution folder. The distribution folder is where the setup files for Windows 2000 reside. During the first step of the install, the client will connect to the distribution folder with IPX or TCP/IP. Before an unattended server based setup of Windows 2000 can occur a directory needs to be prepared. 1. Copy the \I386 folder from the CD to Z:\PUSH2K. Use Explorer, Winfile or XCOPY in order to maintain the same directory structure as on the CD. 2. Make folders as: \$OEM$\$$\Help \$OEM$\$$\System32 \$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\e100 3. From the Configuration and Drivers Diskette provided with the adapter, copy all the files into Z:\PUSH2K\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\Net\e100 directory and copy Unattend.txt from the Diskette into the shared directory Z:\PUSH2K.Make sure that Unattend.txt has got the latest changes you made for customizing the push installation. III. Deployment Method 1. Make sure that you have a copy of network bootable MS-DOS floppy and the boot the system which you want to push install with this floppy and getconnected to the shared network directory. 2. Run the command as : \\Server\PUSH2K\winnt /u:\\Server\PUSH2K\Unattend.txt /s:\\Server\PUSH2K /t:C Important Note: By adopting the above procedure the setup tries to run the installation in unattended mode and copies all the files into the client machine and also detects the plug and play network adpaters, copies all the driver files from the shared directory into to the target system directories and continues the installation of OS and Network adapters in an unattended way. As the INF file which comes with the Microsoft Windows 2000 CD recognizes the 1229 ID network adapters therefore the push installtion will continue without copying the latest drivers from the source. In order to test the push installation we need to have a network adapter which is not recognized by the present INF file of the Microsoft Windows 2000 CD, so that the unattended installation tries to invoke the INF file supplied by us. our conclusion: The push installation works fine with the Windows 2000 Professional build 2151 or later. The sample Unattend.txt file used for the above installation is as follows: // [Unattended] Unattendmode = FullUnattended OemPreinstall = YES DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore TargetPath = WINNT Filesystem = LeaveAlone NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 OemSkipEula = Yes OemPnpDriversPath="drivers\net\e100" [UserData] ProductID=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx FullName = "DMI2" OrgName = "Intel" ComputerName = "test5" [GuiUnattended] TimeZone = "004" AdminPassword = * OemSkipWelcome = 1 AdvServerType = SERVERNT [LicenseFilePrintData] AutoMode = PerSeat [Display] BitsPerPel = 16 XResolution = 800 YResolution = 600 VRefresh = 60 [Identification] JoinDomain=DMI2 CreateComputerAccountInDomain=Yes DomainAdmin=Installer DomainAdminPassword=install [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes //Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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