Mixing drivers for different systems

[TomC9]

Hello,

This may be a silly question as I have only just discovered Nlite and what it can do. I have two laptops, both supplied with Windows XP and made in late 2002. Normally I keep XP on the Dell one and run Linux on the Toshiba. I have just created myself a very nice slipstream CD on the Dell machine, with SP3, IE7, WMP11, a bunch of device drivers and a few tweaks to the options, and it seems to work very well.

I would like to do the same thing to the Toshiba, but at the moment I have my main Linux system installed on it which I do not particularly want to wipe right now. What I am concerned about is when I have slipstreamed a driver using nLite, will the Windows installer just blindly install this driver regardless of the hardware present, or will it still try and work out suitable drivers?

The reason I ask, is that I need to know whether I should attempt to put the Toshiba's drivers on the same CD as the Dell's, or whether that would mean I would end up with the installer trying to install (for example) the Dell's NVidia display drivers on the Toshiba which has an Intel graphics chip.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.

Tom.

[BikinDutchman]

Normally it is not a problem to have a bunch of normal P&P drivers installed for different computers.

-It is the same as that windows always has more drivers than you need.

I would be cautious, however, with textmode drivers.

[TomC9]

Thank you that's great. By text mode drivers you mean for SCSI or RAID controllers etc? Don't think my pair of 6-year-old laptops have anything as flashy as that!

[BikinDutchman]

Thank you that's great. By text mode drivers you mean for SCSI or RAID controllers etc? Don't think my pair of 6-year-old laptops have anything as flashy as that!

Yes they are mostly for special hard drives/configurations (SCSI, AHCI, RAID). Integrating just one of those is fine. Do not worry for your laptop.