drivers from second cd posible?

[webmedic]

The short answer is the following:

1) Put all your drivers folders in a directory named DP

2) Compress the directory with 7zip (Create SFX Archive)

3) Put the compressed file in $OEM$\$\

4) Add this to your winnt.sif

[Unattended]
OemPnPDriversPath="DP\L\3C\1;Etc...

[GuiUnattended]
    DetachedProgram="%systemdrive%\DP.exe"
    Arguments="-y /q /r:n"

and how would you do it without winnt.sif? I know I can easily do this from cmdlines.txt but I think that is to late and all the hardware detection would be done. Correct.

[webmedic]

Yepp, since 2 month now I have switched to this method for Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP2

Edit: for now I have 359Mo of drivers compressed to 83Mo !!!

One more thing would you mind sharing that driver pack?

[Incroyable HULK]

Yes, you are right. The drivers get decompressed at the beginning of the GUI installation part, just before the Hardware detection process starts at T-39.

[webmedic]

Yes, you are right. The drivers get decompressed at the beginning of the GUI installation part, just before the Hardware detection process starts at T-39.

Yes I have built quite a few of those kinds of cd's but I'm trying to stay away from the unatended method now as it is impossible to do a restore on a system. which is kind of important.

[Incroyable HULK]

My driver pack is simply Bâshrat the Sneaky Drivers Packs + Intel Chipset INF + Intel Graphics Drivers + ATi Graphics Drivers...

Plus I have a couple of specific drivers like Samsung Monitor, VMware and Fujitsu S6210...

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Yepp, since 2 month now I have switched to this method for Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP2

Edit: for now I have 359Mo of drivers compressed to 83Mo !!!

And of this archive about 57 MB should be of my DriverPacks...