RDP 2.2 and BL45p Smart controller grief

[john mills_3]

Just tried to deploy a BL45p and it failed at
the mass storage point, just before starting
the Windows GUI setup portion. Easily fixed I
hear, yep hit F6 and install the latest and
supported drivers. All then works beautifully.

The problem is where do I put these drivers so
that my scripted deploy will work ? I've tried
the textmode folder (and the others that have
the drivers in) but the deploy still fails at
the above place, again installing from a the
floppy works OK.

Help !!!

[Adrian Clint_1]

I assume the folders you mean are the ones in express\lib\osoem as thats where I would put them.

I worked on something related to this last year, I think you have to edit some of the .inf driver files to use the correct driver. As even if you copy the drivers over the installation will only use the ones it knows about - ie in the 1st inf file it talks to.

Sorry can't be much more help as I'm not near my notes

[john mills_3]

cheers for that - the driver is acutally an
upgrade to one already there !

It's in cds\compaq\ss.730\wnet.....
but I know where you mean as well - haven't changed ours over to 2.2's layout yet - too much code hacking for one guy.

[Adrian Clint_1]

That sounds like you are still on 1.x RDP ..... or you started with 1.x and upgraded to 2.x and the job you use is still pointing to the 1.x directories.

But you seem to have solved it.

[john mills_3]

Yup - it's been upgrades all the way. The
only real pain in the .... is when HP
decideded to move everything around. All
our in-house code now runs from 1.X areas
but points to 2.X folders !!!!

Still can't get the 45p to pick up the mass
storage driver, but other series do - just
built a DL585 and that's fine !!!