Driver Support
I am in a bit of a cloud. I thought that drivers located in your driver share \\x.x.x.x\drivers\windows_xp would be applied when deploying a windows xp (32bit) image to a computer. I uploaded the drivers from the test PC with driver harvester to the driver share and have then recached drivers. I have even built a new boot environment but whenever I do the boot up into windows, the system always prompts for the drivers for the devices (sound/network/video).
Are there additional steps I have to take so that these drivers are installed automatically with deployment??
Answers (3)
The drivers folder is only for scripted install. However, you can add the drivers to the drivers_postinstall directory and then use the driverfeed workaround to inject the drivers as a midlevel. This is much easier than adding drivers for all your models into an image.
See: http://itninja.com/blog/view/driverfeed-workaround-for-k2000-v3-4
Corey
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Is this a scripted install or a caputured image you are deploying?
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captured image I am deploying. - bostoneo 12 years ago
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I believe that directory is for scritped installs, not sure though. try this link
http://www.kace.com/support/resources/kb/article/Adding-Drivers-in-Windows-XP-Sysprep-Server-Configuration
A trick I found with windows 7 that may work for you is: I cast my syspreped image to a machine and if any drivers are missing I add them to my master and recapture it. I place the driver directories in a folder under windows\inf I called tmccdrivers\model when windows 7 comes out of sysprep it looks at windows inf and all subdirectories for drivers somewhere in the process and adds them. I have one master admin image I can push to the 18 different computer models (pcs and laptops) and never have to add a driver. - SMal.tmcc 12 years ago -
Thats what I'll probably end up doing is adding drivers and recapturing the image. - bostoneo 12 years ago
Go here. Are you on 3.4?
http://www.itninja.com/question/driver-feed-workaround-and-drivers
The path is \\k2\drivers_postinstall.
