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Questions about sysprep, mini-setup, and driver detection (o my!)

Asked by baal32 in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: sysprep

Kind of a bunch of smaller questions rolled into the same question for convenience - if the questions are too difficult I'll break them out individually...

First the background - I'm trying to deploy a sysprepped image to a system with a SB Live! 5.1 PCI card - during mini-setup the process halts and I'm prompted to insert a disk conatining the drivers for the SB.  My OemPnpDriversPath is (I think) correct because the other drivers for other devices install correctly....
The error prompts for P16X.sys and in the 'Browse' text box it prefills c:\windows\system32\drivers\ctxxdad\ or something similiar....

What I'd like to know is:
If there are no drivers installed, how does mini-setup know that I have an SB card and which driver it needs?  Is this found in another file?  Why does the path above appear prefilled (c:\windows....)?  WHen I was lacking drivers previously for other devices I would usually get a prefill of c:\drivers\video\1\ or similiar, as is set up in my sysprep.inf.  I do have windows\inf in my OemPnpDriversPath but why would I get prompted for that particular path first...?   When sysprepping if I use the -pnp flag I get prompted during mini-setup for this driver but if I leave it off I don't get prompted until I gfet into windows and the OS detects 'new hardware' - why?  And finally, .inf vs .sys vs .cat vs. ?  what are these files for?

I know its a lot but hopefully each of these little questions isn't too arduous...
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