I am a newbie to RIS, but have been having a great time learning how powerful it is, but I've gotten to a point where I am stuck. I am trying to deploy a CD image of Windows XP SP2 to a client.

The first issue was the two-fold problem with getting the RIS installation procedure to detect and use the network card during the text portion of the installation. I first extracted the .sys and .inf portion of the driver into the i386 directory of the image, and restarted the BINLSVC service. When it didn't work, I discovered that you needed to use Intel's special .inf file that was created for RIS. I installed that new .inf file, restarted the service, and everything worked great. ALMOST.

I have set up four different drivers that I needed to support this machine. I extracted the drivers newly downloaded from the support site, and put them into the following subdirectories of the image:
/$OEM$/Drivers/Audio/R58182 Analog Devices ADI 198x, v.5.12.01.3555, A09
/$OEM$/Drivers/Network/R66787 Intel Gigabit LOM, v.7.0.34.2, A01
/$OEM$/Drivers/System/R58201 Intel Chipset, v.5.00.1012, A13
/$OEM$/Drivers/Video/R74180 nVidia GeForce4 MX, v.45.03, A06

I added these lines to my ristndrd.sif file:
OemPreinstall="Yes"
OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\Audio\R58182;Drivers\Video\R74180;Drivers\Network\R66787;Drivers\System\R58201"

Now here is the problem. The main installation basically goes fine, but only two of these drivers are actually detected and installed during GUI portion of the installation process! The chipset and video drivers -- the two drivers that I was skeptical about -- were properly installed during GUI setup. But the audio and network drivers were not, and I cannot figure out why. I know that I have the right driver files in the respective folders, because I can use them to do an installation of the drivers after the automated installation is completed. I'm especially surprised by the network driver!!

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Joel