[THIN] Re: changing CD-ROM drive letter
- From: "Spencer Sun" <ssun@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:50:15 -0500
Neil, I've not tried it with a server OS, but when we tried to reletter the
CDrom on a Windows XP image, after deploying the image, it would revert back
to the next letter after the hard drives. Part of the OS's check I guess.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:46 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: changing CD-ROM drive letter
> Accepted - it was always likely to - yet I'm still puzzled why changing
> it in the image is not the easier option, than changing it after the
> fact?
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Perkins [mailto:MPerkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 20 October 2003 18:25
> > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: changing CD-ROM drive letter
> >
> > Actually, Dirk's Diskpart utility suggestion worked
> > perfectly. Thanks for the input.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:21 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: changing CD-ROM drive letter
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael Perkins [mailto:MPerkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 20 October 2003 17:12
> > > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> > > Subject: [THIN] Re: changing CD-ROM drive letter
> > >
> > > Yes I could. But I have just about automated the entire
> > process using
> > > VBScripts, Picture Taker files, etc.
> >
> > I'm still failing to understand why you cannot correct the
> > CD-ROM drive letter in the image, rather than post-fixing the
> > image with scripting.
> >
> > > Renaming
> > > of the CDROM drive is one of the missing pieces in one of the
> > > VBScripts. Thanks for the input.
> >
> > vbscript, natively, doesn't provide any mechanism for this
> > sort of thing, normally. vbscript taken by itself, is useful
> > (as other scripting
> > languages) for making active web pages. Beyond that, on it's
> > own, it's quite limited for client-side scripting.
> >
> > It's only when combined with other technology (ie WSH, ADSI,
> > or WMI) that it becomes something like a system admin type
> > scripting tool.
> >
> > I'm merely wondering why you are spending so much time
> > considering altering an OS after the fact, when surely it
> > would be easier to just create the image with the correct
> > CD-ROM drive letter.
> >
> > Neil
>
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