Recursively Search OEMPnPDriversPath?

[Guest]

Greetings, all

Is there any way to have Windows XP recursively search the driver path during unattended setup? Can I specifiy "DRIVERS\*" on my OEMPnPDriversPath entry in unattend.txt? I have a long list of drivers that are needed to be available on the system root during PnP detection to accomdate three or four different PC types that are within my corporation's standards. I am running out of room specifying every folder in the driver path. To make matters worse, XP setup places "%systemroot%" at the beginning of every folder path, and that ends up making my 1400 character string go beyond the 4K limit and it gets truncated

If anyone knows how to do this, or how to submit this functionality to Microsoft as a request, it would be greatly appreciated

Thanks In Advance

- Steven

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Unfortunately, no, you can't. You have to explicitly specify any folders in
which Windows should look for drivers.

The only advice I can offer you is to try to cut out as many characters as
possible from the folder names. We use something similar to the following:

c:\D\gx260\vid;c:\d\gx260\nic...etc...

 

[Guest]

Mike

Thank you for reply. It's rather unfortunate that Microsoft believes that recursive searching for drivers should only happen on removable media. I hope they modify this for the future as it will reduce problems from typing errors and increase the speed of corporate deployment

Cheers

- Steve

----- Mike Kolitz wrote: ----

Unfortunately, no, you can't. You have to explicitly specify any folders in
which Windows should look for drivers

The only advice I can offer you is to try to cut out as many characters as
possible from the folder names. We use something similar to the following

c:\D\gx260\vid;c:\d\gx260\nic...etc..

 

[Mike Kolitz]

I absolutely agree with you, Steven. It's a pain in my posterior, too

If you feel so inclined, you can submit feedback about the Windows Server
System (which also has the same limitation) at
http://www.windowsserverfeedback.com. The more people who mention this as
being a problem, the more likely they are to consider enhancing the design.