Add adaptec driver to Server 2003 install CD

Hello,

This is a long sad story involving HP server that cannot work
it's scsi controller or network card without drivers and has no floppy
drive facility. We have tried a USB floppy but while that
allows the driver to load into memory, when the install program
looks for it to install it on the disk the floppy has moved from A: to
C:.


Is there a quick hack, or any other method of
adding some Adaptec Raid driver files to a Server 2003 installation CD.

I can edit files, create boot CD etc. I have been doing a bit
of research and can find nothing that looks like I could get it
working in less that about a week and even then the outcome
does not seem certain.

I have removed the NT directory from the following diaplay.

It looks so easy:-

E:\>dir /s
Volume in drive E is FLOPPY
Volume Serial Number is B649-9721

Directory of E:\

06/09/2002 14:57 37 hraidsk1
20/09/2001 11:44 8,211 txtsetup.oem
22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> win32
2 File(s) 8,248 bytes

Directory of E:\win32

22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> .
22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> ..
01/12/2003 19:11 8,860 a320raid.cat
11/08/2003 12:09 22,731 a320raid.inf
16/10/2003 17:04 242,130 a320raid.sys
01/12/2003 19:11 8,431 adhraid.cat
04/03/2003 10:31 1,559 adhraid.inf
5 File(s) 283,711 bytes

This MUST be really easy if only I knew which
files to put where and how to tell windows to load them.


Thanks.

anybody43 wrote:
> This is a long sad story involving HP server that cannot work
> it's scsi controller or network card without drivers and has no
> floppy drive facility. We have tried a USB floppy but while that
> allows the driver to load into memory, when the install program
> looks for it to install it on the disk the floppy has moved from A:
> to C:.
>
>
> Is there a quick hack, or any other method of
> adding some Adaptec Raid driver files to a Server 2003 installation
> CD.
>
> I can edit files, create boot CD etc. I have been doing a bit
> of research and can find nothing that looks like I could get it
> working in less that about a week and even then the outcome
> does not seem certain.
>
> I have removed the NT directory from the following diaplay.
>
> It looks so easy:-
>
> E:\>dir /s
> Volume in drive E is FLOPPY
> Volume Serial Number is B649-9721
>
> Directory of E:\
>
> 06/09/2002 14:57 37 hraidsk1
> 20/09/2001 11:44 8,211 txtsetup.oem
> 22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> win32
> 2 File(s) 8,248 bytes
>
> Directory of E:\win32
>
> 22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> .
> 22/11/2005 16:48 <DIR> ..
> 01/12/2003 19:11 8,860 a320raid.cat
> 11/08/2003 12:09 22,731 a320raid.inf
> 16/10/2003 17:04 242,130 a320raid.sys
> 01/12/2003 19:11 8,431 adhraid.cat
> 04/03/2003 10:31 1,559 adhraid.inf
> 5 File(s) 283,711 bytes
>
> This MUST be really easy if only I knew which
> files to put where and how to tell windows to load them.

General idea - works for XP/2003 just fine.
http://www.greenmachine.msfnhosting....NG/addraid.htm

Have used the method to add many SCSI and SATA RAID controllers so I could
install without the F6.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thanks for this, looks good. Not yet working though.

I also found:
http://www.nliteos.com/

Integrates drivers, service packs, etc into Windows
Installation CD's, prepares iso boot images ready to burn.

Seems very nice.

Can't vouch for it since we seem to have a hardware issue now.

Server has been apart, rebooted so many times during this mess
that it seems unwell.

Thanks.