Slipstreaming device drivers into XP

[Stilez]

I manage about half a dozen PCs, so my windows XP install CD gets various different mass storage drivers to be loaded in text mode.

I would like to slipstream my commonly-used mass storage drivers using a method I have seen, but isn't much discussed, that doesn't use $OEM$ or OEMPreinstall, and doesn't use nLite, but directly adds the .sys or .sy_ files to the install CD I386 folder and the corresponding entries to txtsetup.oem.

(I have various reasons, including... keeping f6 working (OEMPreinstall kills it), wanting to learn how it is done, avoiding any potential conflict between nLite and my own changes, being sure that I know exactly what changes have been done (which are harder to know about with nLite), and for elegance's sake: - it's just nice to make minimal changes!)

Most guides either rely on nLite, DriverPacks, or $OEM$ -- I've found a few guides on this method, but material is sparse. I'd like to learn. If someone can sum up how it's done or help find a guide on it, it would help a lot.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Stilez

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