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Subject: Help needed: hardware specific apps and media deployment
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08/05/2008 6:43 AM  

Hi!

I have a strange problem when trying to install hardware-specific applications (basically drivers that require to be installed by some setup routine) during a media deployment.

As I cannot use the deployment-datanase when deploying from an offline medium, i need to assign the applications in my curstomSettings.ini file. The relevant parts of my CustomSettings.ini file look like this:

 

[Settings]
Priority=Model,Default
Properties=UseBootix, Contoso_Funktion, Contoso_Prisma, Contoso_Hardware, EAS_DLL
 
[Default]

...

SkipApplications=YES
Applications001={715abac0-dc9c-4678-8e05-5193e2c4d71c}
Applications002={69237c3e-a0e9-48cf-badc-ec057fedd931}

...

 

[A1951Y2C]
Contoso_Hardware=Contoso-T60
Applications003={f2b2134b-f971-446c-a3b6-0ab6c75a47ac}
EAS_DLL=SIDYASEA.dll

[A8895WB8]
Contoso_Hardware=Contoso-T61
Applications003={0827c42b-6f9e-4722-89ff-a8bad0522dda}
EAS_DLL=SIDYASEA.dll

[VMware Virtual Platform]
Contoso_Hardware=Contoso-VM
Applications003={ddffa1d9-7a12-479c-a7ae-de0806060116}

The Applications001 and Applications002 setting works, those apps are installed on each machine.
However, the hardware specific setting Applications003 is always ignored no matter which hardware I try.

I am confident, that the model sections are evaluated, because the other two hardware dependent settings (Contoso-Hardware and EAS_DLL) work as they should.

Does anybody have an idea, how I can get this to work?

Thanks in advance!
Hatrick

 

KonradUser is Offline

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08/10/2008 8:02 PM  
Hi Hatrick,

I've not tried this myself, but I think you might have to call your additional hardware specific applications "Applications001" (and onwards), even though you've already got Applications001 defined under [default]. I believe that each new section starts from 001 again.

Cheers.
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