** ** ** VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter ** ** Unattended Installation on Windows 95/98/ME ** ** v1.02 May, 2004 ** Introduction: ============= This document shows you how to unattended install network adapter driver under Win95/Win98/WinME. This is achieved by setting the options in the msbatch.inf file. Contents of the Subdirectory: ============================= msbatch.inf The sample answering file for Win95/Win98/WinME. UNATDW9x.TXT This file. Installation: ============= The following installation procedures shows how to unattended install Win9x and network adapter driver on multiple computers over a network. Each computers consists one Network Adapter. 1. Create one shared distribution folder; in our example, the shared distribution folder is named Z:\UNATDW9x. The shared distribution folder resides on the server which the destination computers can connect. 2. Copy all files from the Win9x Installation CD-ROM to Z:\UNATDW9x. Maintain the same directory structure as on the CD-ROM. 3. From the Configuration and Drivers Diskette provided with the adapter, copy all the files in driver source directory into Z:\UNATDW9x directory and copy msbatch.inf from the Diskette into the shared directory Z:\UNATDW9x. Make sure that msbatch.inf has the latest changes you made for customizing the unattended installation. 4. Make sure that you have a copy of network bootable MS-DOS floppy and the boot the system which you want to unattended install with this floppy and connected to the shared network directory (Z:\UNATDW9x). 5. Run the command as, z:\unatdW9x\setup z:\unatdW9x\msbatch.inf 6. By adopting the above procedure, the setup runs the installation in unattended mode and also detects the plug and play network adpaters. All driver files are copied from the shared directory to the target system directories and continues installation of the OS and network adapters without user intervention.