Please Help: Adding Drivers for New Model to Old Riprep

[Xellos]

Hello Forum,

I apologize if this issue was previously covered but I tried looking around and I still am having a hard time dealing with a RIS /Riprep issue. I have a riprep image of a pc (dell 620) in which all drivers and items were installed and working. I pulled the image down and it works fine with 620s. Now I gota new shipment of pcs and I wanted to use the same riprep image since the hals are both for dual cores. My issue is, is there a way to update or add new drivers for the new models to my old riprep image? The image pulls down on the new machines but does not have the new drivers no matter what I do.

What I tried:

1. I setup the $OEM$\Drivers for both the flat and riprep images.

i.e.

$OEM$\Drivers ->Driver\Nic, Driver\Video

\\testris\REMINST\Setup\English\Images\WinXPCD_Orig\$OEM$

\\testris\REMINST\Setup\English\Images\RiprepImg\$OEM$

2. I edited the sif files for both ristndrd.sif and riprep.sif

Ex.

[unattended]

OemPreinstall = yes

OemPnpDriversPath = "\Drivers\Nic;\Drivers\Chipset;\Drivers\Video\Intel;\Drivers\Video\Nvidia;\Drivers\Audio;\Drivers\Wireless"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

3. I copied the new drivers (.sys and .inf) to the flat image i386 folder, deleted the .pnf, and restarted the RIS service.

4. I tried the UpdateInstalledDrivers=Yes on both sifs

5. I tried giving up and putting the drivers in the userdata folder on the riprep img and editing the driverpath in the HIVE to point toward this.

No matter what I do when Windows XP Boots, it detects new hardware and ask for the drivers from the driver cache.

Any help is appreciated as I am racking my brain on this. We are looking to only maintain one image for each HAL type so pulling down the image updating and reupping is not a solution unless the above is unfeasible. Thank you once again in advance for any hepl.

[sysbuilder]

Hello Xellos,

I am in the same boat as you' I many different images for laptop we are using in the field and I am just now getting to look at what options I have available to create a master image and update it as necessary in the future.

What seems to be the path of least resistence is to take the newest image I created for the newest laptop we have in our field and work backwards; updating this image with the appropriate drivers for the next-to-most-current laptop we have and so on.

What I do not want happening is ending up with a folder C:\Drivers on every laptop with every single driver for all the different models. I want RIS to actively grab (copy) the appropriate drivers during setup and leave the rest on the RIS server, wherever I should be putting them.

Any assistance on this matter would be splendid; It will make for a great start to 2007!

[Xellos]

The above describe solution is what my goal is as well. I'm at the point of almost giving up and just scripting silent installs in guirunonce (dell drivers are a pain) and pulling down other drivers using OemPnP path. If anyone has any other input or suggestion for the cleanest method I am all ears. Once again, thanks for any advice in advance.