Installing Drivers on a bulk number of systems

Hello,

I run a computer club in which me and some of my friends tinker around with old hardware, build old systems from scratch, install old operating systems etc...

However, I seem to come across this inconvenience - some of the systems do not have drivers for sound, video etc... Since it is very hard to about impossible to deduce and find every driver for each hardware that we have, I decided to get a bunch of Driverpacks for 9X (from this forum).

The problem is that if I burn these driverpacks to a CD (obviously separate from the installation disks) can Windows deduce what hardware it is and automatically install the correct driver? Because last time I remember, I had to manually go through each folder and subfolder and try every single .inf file. I personally wouldn't want to handle 10 people asking for help because they do not have the drivers for some hardware (and multiply it by how much hardware needs drivers). Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Edited June 2, 201016 yr by ijwcomp