Selecting the OS drivers

This window is only applicable to a Setup Deployment or a Sysprep WIM Image Deployment.

In this step of the OSD wizard, the drivers must be defined which will be used by the Windows Setup after installation or that are required by the Sysprep installation. This is the equivalent for manually inserting the drivers floppy during the installation process. Here you can define all drivers that might be needed by the deployment operating system to properly run. The drivers must be defined here as well in their usual .inf format. If you are creating an XP setup and your targets use a SATA disk, do not forget to add the required SATA driver here as well.

By default no drivers are predefined, therefore this list box is empty. To add a driver, for example, an Ethernet network driver proceed as follows:

1. Click the Create Driver icon above the list box.
    The Create a New Driver window appears.

2. Enter the required data into the respective boxes.

   After all parameters are defined they must be checked that they are correct. Until the verification is executed and returns the Status OK, the wizard cannot continue.

   Parameter	Description
   Driver .inf File	Enter the name and path of the .inf file of the driver. This is the path on the local device (OSD Manager) and to be entered as such with the drive letter as well as the name of the file, for example, D:/Drivers/TEXTORM/chipset/Vista32/Ethernet/nvfd6032.inf . You can also indicate a path to a removable device, such as a DVD drive, as the driver files is copied to a specific directory in the BCM Deploy. To find the file in its directory structure click the Select button next to the field. The Driver File from [Device] window appears on the screen. Browse the directories to find the correct file, select it and then click the OK button to add it.
   Name	The user access name. It is simply used as a display name, but it must be unique anyway.
   Version	The release date and version of the driver.
   Manufacturer	The company that created the driver.
   Type	The type of hardware the driver enables.
   Description	A brief description of the driver by the manufacturer.
   Supported OS	The list of operating systems supported by the driver.
   Supported Hardware	The list of hardware devices supported by the driver.
   Deployment Driver	Indicates is the new driver is a deployment driver (WinPE driver).
   Status	The driver import status.

3. To verify click Check Driver to the right of the Status box.
    BMC Client Management - Software Distribution will now verify all entries of this page, that is, the directory and the access rights to it and fill in the remaining boxes with the recovered information, such as the list of driver files. If all values are correct the Status OK is returned, otherwise an error message displays in the Status box indicating where the parameter value is not correct.
4. After the Status OK is returned click OK to add the new driver to the list and return to the OS Drivers window.
    Now the driver displays in the list of available drivers.
5. Repeat these steps to add other drivers. The drivers defined here must be compliant with the image to be deployed.
6. Select the required driver(s) in the list.
7. Click Next to go to the following wizard page.