Defining Deployment Drivers

If in addition to the drivers provided on the installation CD/DVD you need more drivers you can also defined them manually.

Deployment drivers are limited to network and hard disk drivers as they are absolutely required by WinPE to perform its tasks.

For this example we will first add an Ethernet network driver.

1. Go to the OS Deployment > Your OSD Manager > Drivers > Deployment Drivers node.
2. To do so click Create Driver .
    The Create a New Driver window appears.

3. Define the following parameters:

   Parameter	Description
   Name	Enter a name for the new driver, for example Ethernet Network Driver.
   Driver Type	This drop down list defines the type of the driver, that is, if it is a network driver, a SATA disk driver, a keyboard driver, and so on. Select the Modem/Network Driver value from the list.
   Driver .inf File	Enter into this text box the name and path of the .inf file of the driver. This is the path on the local device, that is, the OSD Manager and to be entered as such with the drive letter and 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, because the driver files will be copied to a specific directory in the BMC Client Management - Software Distribution. To find the file in its directory structure click Select. The Driver File window appears.It provides the directory structure of the currently selected OSD Manager. Browse the directories to find the correct file, select it and then click OK to add it.

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

4. To verify click Check Driver to the right of the Status box.
    CM will now verify all entries of this page, that is, the directory and the access rights to it and fill in the remaining text boxes with the recovered information, such as the list of driver files. If all values are correct the Status Done is returned, otherwise an error message displays in the Status box indicating where the parameter value is not correct.
5. After the Status Done is returned click OK to add the new driver to the list and return to the OS Drivers window.
6. Repeat preceding steps to add other necessary drivers.The drivers defined here must be compliant with the image to be deployed.

The new driver will be automatically created under the driver class node to which it belongs, for example, all network card drivers will be created under the Network Cards node. If the folder for this class does not yet exist it is created.