Unattended setup, loading drivers, HAL needed?

[imwaiting]

Hi,

Trying to make sure my first unattended setup has a shot at going smoothly.

After upgrading the BIOS, I've downloaded the XP drivers for everything I could find on the old Gateway system-

video adapter, sound card, Chipset, modem original hard drive, ...

plus XP drivers for other things added to the system...

Intel 100/Pro+ network card, new DVD burner, new hard drive

most of these come in the form of a setup program for after the fact, how can I identify the key files needed, probably inf files, and be sure that

A) the unattended install finds them in i386/$OEM$/$$/Drivers

B) that the setting are correct

What about this hardware abstraction layer (HAL)? that I see in set up and inf files on my corporate laptop? Is this something I need to try and create? With a utility I hope.

[CptMurphy]

This file is created during OS installation. It's updated whenever you install new hardware. It's essentially a database of all the hardware that's on your system, and all the information about it; IRQs, DMA, MEM, etc. Don't worry, it's created during install.