Hi there!
I have to install a driver during the text mode setup phase of Win2K
installation. I use F6/txtsetup.oem to do that. However my driver needs
the networking stack (Tcpip/NIC) to be up in order to work. These drvers
are not loaded during the text mode setup, is there anyway of loading and
configuring the networking drivers (tcpip & nic) during the text mode
setup phase of Win2K installation?
I have done some research and found out using WinDbg that PnP manager does
enumerate the NIC and creates the devnode for it. It rightly reports it as
NOT CONFIGURED. I guess only if I can somehow insert the required
configuration data into the registry, it will start the drivers provided I
load networking drivers too from the floppy using F6.
Any pointers on how we can stuff the networking configuration data like
tcpip parameters, binding info etc into the registry during this phase?
Thanks in advance.