new method for installing drivers?

[neuro42]

Decided the best way to get drivers for my unattended CD was to extract the ones already on my system, right?

SO I mossied my way over to c:\Windows\system32\drivers\

And found a WHOLE list of drivers.

Now I have not gone thorugh every driver on my system to see if they all are located there, yet. But I have a feeling that they are.

So...

My thinking was... can I delete the drivers.cab from the install disk if I put that whole list into either the $$\system32\drivers folder on the disk?

Or just pop them in the drivers folder. and then in the winnt.sif just put

OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\"

This would save me a lot of trouble of managing every single little driver, and just make sure my entire system is up to date (And maybe even get rid of ALL the windows drivers and use all manufacturers drivers!!! heh heh).

Any driver master help is appreciated

[tguy]

Don't forget about the TEXTMODE portion of setup. The txtsetup.sif points to drivers in their normal locations. You may need to hack this file to point to your drivers folder.

[neuro42]

Actually I was thinking if I put the m in the system32\Drivers folder, then I would not need to uset he oenxxxxx sif line

Or perhaps incorporate he minto the drivers1.cab in the i386 folder

or something

working on other stuff ATM, will check this out (if no one already knows the answer) in VMware later

If it works this is a great method for building personal oem disks, however it still wont do anything for oems for other people (so knowing more then one method will be important)

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

1. There are several drivers with same filenames: => this method won't work

2. Everything becomes very messy: hundreds of files mixed up: => very difficult to maintain all this.

3. more things where I don't think of atm...