Hi all,
New PCs arrive at the office with XP preinstalled with all the pnp drivers we need. We have a tool to rip the drivers from the vendor's build and put them into our corporate build. We then wipe the PC and rebuild.
We make zip files, per model, containing the pnp drivers.
We can then pick the model from a DOS menu during our build. The drivers are unzipped to c: and the unattend.txt file is updated with the correct OEMPnPDriver path.
We made a tool called PnPRipper which we use to make our zip files. We run it on each new type of PC we get in the office before we wipe it to install the corporate standard build. We then copy the zip file to our build share and that's it. The build now supports the new make and model of PC. Point, click, drag drop. Easy. So the desktop engineers don't need to know how the build works. They just need to run pnpripper. No need to visit the vendor's website to download drivers one by one for intergration into your build.
Currently we have 19 zip files for 19 different makes and models of IBM Thinkpad, Compaq and HP.
Link to the tool below. Freely distributable. Do what you like with it. Includes example batch file showing how you can extract make and model info from the zip files to parse for your menu.
http://www.geocities.com/pnpripper/pnpripper4.zip
Regards,
Alex
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