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by inesay

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I have these pcs that I am making oS images for and they have differents Nics drivers on them. The OS work fine on them and I an wondering if there is a way to include the drivers of the nic somewhere so that the OS can pick up the needed drivers automatically after the systems are reimaged. Now, i have a folder on the local C:\ drive where I have drivers... Plz, help..
Thanks in advance

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by joseph moore

Just download the driver installs for each NIC you are dealing with and put them all in a single folder, like C:\DRIVERS

Then, when you Ghost the image to another machine, you can just fire up the newly imaged system, and run the driver install from the folder.

by inesay

Will there be a way to add a .txt file to the installation somewhere that will trigger the installation when the right driver when need?

by tstumph

Take one of your machines and install the current NIC drivers on it. Power off the machine and pop in one of the other NICS and then install the drivers for that one. Continue to do that with all your different NICS, then image the machine. This works for most hardware.

by rnavarro

Something that works for me is copying the drivers as you had, but creating the image before the first reboot of the machine, befor it runs the hardware discovery and it will install the drivers by itself. Depending on the NIC that XP finds. It also works for any other hardware.

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