How can I configure extra Plug and Play drivers for a Windows 2000 installation?
February 19, 2000
A. If you are installing Windows 2000 over the network (includingRIS) and have the I386 structure on disk its possible to add extra plug and playdrivers that will be loaded as needed during installations.
Move to your I386 structure and create a subdirectory $OEM$$1
Under the $1 directory create a directory of no more than 8 characters of the company who make the driver, e.g. creative
Under that directory create a subdirectory for the type of hardware, e.g. video, sound etc. (again no more than 8 characters)
At this point you might have structure:
- d:i386$OEM$$1creativevideo
- d:i386$OEM$$1creativeaudioCopy the drivers and the .INF files into the appropriate subfolder
Open you answer file (or your SIF file) and add the directories to the OEMPnPDriversPath under the [Unattended] section, e.g.
[Unattended] OEMPnPDriversPath = "creativevideo;creativeaudio"
Use a semi-colon (;) to separate the entriesIf any of the drivers are unsigned it will interrupt the unattended installation so also add the line
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
Under the OemPnPdriversPath line
You may if you wish just create a single directory under $OEM$$1 such aspnpdriv and just copy everything into there as long as you have no file nameclashes. If you do this the OEMPnPDriversPath would be just "pnpdriv".It would be recommended to keep them separated to help organization and alsoremember this structure will be copied locally to the system drive.
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