WinPE Driver Installation into Loaded Registry

[krawn]

I was wondering if anyone could help with some suggestions on the following. Let me briefly explain the scenario:

We are developing a single image end to end XP SP2 build for our company's estate of PC's. We will be deploying the image booting into WinPE version 2.0 via PXE and then using Altiris deployment imaging tools to load the image to the machine's hard disk.

Once the base image is loaded, we have scripts to identify the machine type from the base board, we then extract the correct driver set using the base board info and then load the registry hive which has been installed onto the PC into PE.

What we want to do from here is use the INF files for the drivers to install to the registry for the actual machine which we have just loaded up.

Has anyone done this or know of any tools that will allow us to install the drivers using the INF files to the loaded registry hive?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Kam

[IcemanND]

Why not just add the drivers to the image, or inject them after deploying and let windows do the work by having the driver folders listed in the HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\devicepath key?

Then on first boot up if new devices are found it sound find them and install the drivers and other associated settings. Alot less messing around and then you don't need to try and access the registry at all if you set up a default set of folders to keep the drivers in.