Integrate Drivers

[rdxvin123]

How can I integrate video and sound Drivers to my XP prof. So that it will be installed during the setup. Where in xp CD should i place these drivers. I use nlite.

Thanx a lot.

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Well, first of all, this post should be moved to the nLite forum.

If your drivers are packed, you have to unpack them (use 7-zip or the Universal Extractor). Put the extracted contents in folders and all into one folder called Drivers.

Open nLite and from the very beginning choose the option Integrate Drivers, so later when the screen is open, choose the option to integrate multiple drivers and point nLite to your Drivers folder.

Important notice: if you want to integrate SATA/RAID drivers, you have to integrate them as TXT, not PnP, and make sure they are integrated last, so they are read first during Windows Setup (in text mode).

[jaclaz]

Well, first of all, this post should be moved to the nLite forum.

Should it?

I would have thought that there were other ways to integrate drivers, and not only nlite....

jaclaz

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Very much true jaclaz, but rdxvin123 already mentioned he was using nLite.

[cluberti]

Agreed - moving to nLite section. Please read the section rules before posting going forward, OP. I'll reiterate them here for reference:

If you have questions about customizing Windows XP that are nLite-specific, please post them in the nLite forum, not here.

[fdv]

Someone else add to this since I gotta do other stuff.

When 2k/XP/2k3 install, they throw INF files into the INF folder and later parse that for device INF installers. So, the first thing we have to do is rename your INF driver files to something unique. Let's say mysnd.inf. let's also say that your soundcard driver is h48a2ns9.sys.

Then, open TXTSETUP and add

mysnd.inf = 1,,,,,,,20,0,0

h48a2ns9.sys = 1,,,,,,,4,0,0

The install will find the device, speed through INF looking for an installer file, will find the one you added, and install the card.

Now you can use nlite (because digsig and file checking need disabling).

Someone add to this, I gott go

[johnhc]

fdv, well, I certainly cannot add to your post and I wonder why anyone would want to do so. NLite will do all that is needed to integrate drivers and there is no need to modify files after running nLite. Enjoy, John.

[rdxvin123]

Sorry that i post this in a wrong place. Thanx all for you help. Need more help. I integrated drivers with nlite with ini. files. Now nlite show drivers as 4.55MB where as my driver folder shows 15MB.

[Ponch]

Now nlite show drivers as 4.55MB where as my driver folder shows 15MB.

That is probably including files like "Setup.exe" that are meant to install the drivers the "normal" way, or sub folders that contain drivers for other OSs (2k, Vista, Win7).

Be sure you have at least 1 .inf file for every device you install.

[Martin H]

nLite cabs the binaries and excludes txt files, maybe more file-types, i don't know, but i know it dosen't go through the INF SourceDisksFiles Section and only copies needed files... For that, i would recommend DrvComp(nLite can take pre-cabbed binaries without a problem...)