Driver slipstreaming

[chaos2305]

Hi Guys

I am deploying vista thrue WDS, and the basic deployment goes fine. What i want to do now is slipstreaming drivers. because there are several drivers that work fine using the setup.exe i was thinking if its possible to copy all the necessary drivers from my wds server to the target machine and run the setup.exe with the appropriate switches with an firstlogoncommand? or is this to much work?

or is it better to use the driverpaths option to add drivers? i am testing this at the moment but that does not work :

What i first did was copy the whole driver folder to the "out of box drivers" folder and add a driverpatch command in my unattended.xml file.

When this did'nt work, i copyd the contents of the driver folder to the root of the "out of box drivers folder".

At my first test i had the below folder structure :

out of box drivers

VGA

GF7600

Driver files

And now i have :

out of box driver

VGA

Driver files

but this does not work also.

Can someone help me with my problems?

thanks in advance

[Gwido]

I use a network share not WDS to deploy Vista, but you could use either the DriverPaths or the RunAsynchronous to achieve the same results.

Here is a snippet from my autounattend.xml file i use for deployment.

The OPK/WAIK says you should deploy using a Data Image but I have not had time to test this scenario yet, so i am using the legacy method which works fine for my dployment requirements.

Put your raw INF files and the driver files required in the relevent sub directory structure and add it to the WinPE pass of the installation. Vista will search the folders and add them to the driver file repository of the installation.

- <DriverPaths>
- <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="2">
  <Path>\\Graphix-pc\WIM\HomeBasic-865\$oem$\$1\Drivers\Modem</Path> 
  </PathAndCredentials>
- <PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="1">
  <Path>\\Graphix-pc\WIM\HomeBasic-865\$oem$\$1\Drivers\Sound\WDM</Path> 
  </PathAndCredentials>

Regs,

Gwido