Windows Vista driver management

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Video X Drivers » Windows Vista driver management — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:18:20 GMT

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re: Windows Vista driver management

BartPE — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:26:45 GMT

Hi Michael,

You talk about adding drivers when the OS is deployed (online) via PKGMGR. I assume this is only possible for drivers delivered as .msu?

re: Windows Vista driver management

mniehaus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:11:42 GMT

No, this is actually possible for drivers delivered as an INF + files. PKGMGR knows specifically how to deal with drivers.

No one (outsie of Microsoft service packs at least) ships drivers as MSU files, and only Microsoft can create these. (They need to be signed by the Microsoft build labs.)

re: Windows Vista driver management

Grenex — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:12:49 GMT

So I am REALLY foggy on this...

Basically, this is the first reference I have found that mentions

"drivers are added just-in-time to a Windows Vista image as it is being deployed (after it is placed on the disk, but before it boots for the first time"

This is exactly what I want to do, but all references I find to PkgMgr.exe keep talking about injecting drivers INTO the WIM file. Is there clear cut steps on how to use pkgmgr to drop a specific set of drivers onto a host machine after I lay the image down to C:\ with ImageX, but prior to the first boot?