After reading the premise for having an unattended install CD with all the driver packs embedded so all are available upon installation in the "Beginners" section. Then reading in the "Intermediate\Device drivers" section about having to add Device\SATA\RAID drivers via WINNT.SIF or from CD, it talks about having to add the particular drivers for the installation in question "manually". Am I missing something? It sounds like after creating an installation disc with the driver packs embedded the installation process won't be able to scan through the available drivers to find a driver that would not be available in a normal XP installation. Please clear up my thought processes and show me some light.

In the "intermediate" user install, you DON'T integrate the whole driverpack, just the drivers you need . Slims the install down and reduces install time by reducing hardware device scan load times during setup.

Make sense?

In the "intermediate" user install, you DON'T integrate the whole driverpack, just the drivers you need . Slims the install down and reduces install time by reducing hardware device scan load times during setup.

Make sense?

Yes, but I thought the whole idea is to be able to have one generic install disc that would be able to cover pretty much all installations. So then you will still need to create an install disc for every different computer while being aware of all the different particular components of each, right?

Oh well....

I suppose you could make a generic CD containing all of the Drivers for all of the PC's that you will be using the disc to install on, but I guess thats upto the situation, i'm just using this disc for my own personal PC so dont need too many drivers, but you can use the guide to use more than one set of drivers.

The problem really is that not too many (if any) different makes of computers/ hardware will use the same drivers.

Hope that wasn't totally useless!!

Jon