Aha! I have it. [Unattended] OemPreinstall=yes fixed it, also the other references I've left here are helpful (or I've got questions about). Thank you everyone for all comments and advice, I'll continue to sift through and put it into action over the next few months.

I have further questions, generally and particularly about what Mattias has said here, so I'll comment them and ask below.

Matthias Petz wrote:
sure here is my version of this file (used for win2k and winxppro)

[Unattended]
    LegacyNIC = 1
What does this do? I can't find any doco referring to it.

    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore <-- Needed to use non-WHQL-drivers
    OemPreinstall=Yes <-- Needed to use driver folders
Aha! That's what was missing. "copy folders" etc... a related page with a breakdown of where the files go:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/all/deployguide/en-us/acicb_ui_wbgu.asp
Some more info about the process wrt drivers:
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/ntunattend.htm


[Data]
    UnattendedInstall=Yes <-- also needed for drivers
    floppyless=1
Is this setting useful?

[NetOptionalComponents]
    LPDSVC=1
What does this one do? I found a comment in someone's unattended.txt "Install Print Services for UNIX", but how does this help? I can already add LPD printers once Windows is installed.


It is also very interesting to interrupt the first reboot of the
installation after copying files to the hard disk, have a look with a
bootdisk what exactly has been copied. It will take some time to understand
the whole process going on,especially install.pl.

Cool, I will do just that, at some point. I have another issue with install.pl / config.pl but I'll put that in another posting.


Thanks again! I am a very happy man right now that I can get drivers installed with Windows setup rather than manually.

Greg.

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