Hi Gregory!

> I thought that the oempnpdriverspath was the source path,

yes

 and the files 
> would be copied from there to the relevant place in the Windows 
> directory structure.

no.

They are copied to the root of %SystemDrive% which is C:\

Because of that fact, you should create a single directory (e.g. 
"driver") unter $1 and put all drivers in directories below that one.

"driver" (and all subdirs and files) are being copied to c:\driver by 
windows setup.

The OemPnPDriversPath parameter in unattend.txt tells Windows Setup 
to use (some of) these files to install devices. Even if you choose a 
subset of the drivers you maintain on the server below that 
directory, ALL files are copied to the new workstation.

Because of that, some of us delete this folder at a later stage of 
the installation when the drivers are not needed any more and waste 
disk space.

> Besides, this path is in the unattended.txt under C:\netinst on the 
> destination system after install. ie it is auto-generated by the 
> unattended installer. Of course I have one under 
> <unattendeddir>/install/lib/unattended.txt and that is used as a base, 
> but there is currently no oempnpdriverspath entry in that file, so it's 
> generated from the menu system.

It is better to create one once and place it into unattend.txt in 
/install/site. DO NOT TOUCH /install/lib/unattend.txt because that is 
part of the distribution, is maintained by us developers and possibly 
changes with later releases. The /install/site directory is 
completely yours, an update will not change anything there, and it is 
intended for site-local changes.

If you compute a OemPnPDriversPath parameter and put it in 
/install/site/unattend.txt, you will not be asked by the Unattended 
config script any more, which makes live easier. There is no reason 
to select the drivers by hand: the files are copied completely and 
windows setup only uses, what it needs, so that additional drivers 
don't harm!

> Can someone clear this all up for us please?

I hope I achieved that for you. Ask me, if it was not clear enough or 
if I missed something.

cu
Niels


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