Hi Seth!
Starting with Vista and the transition to a PE based installation routine
(the OS installer is called Panther and it runs in a PE environment) USB
thumb drives and the like are recognized during setup and can be used for
loading needed drivers at installation time.
This is a very good news, thanks! I just wanted to avoid any surprises.
nLite doesn't work with Win7 (yet?).
When you boot from the Win7 installation disk, when you get to the drive
selection screen and no drives show up, you can load drivers then.
That's really a great step ahead for MS!
It's like 640k was enough for
everybody.
Also, many newer motherboards with onboard RAID chipsets also offer
driverless support (a RAID volume shows up as a standard BIOS drive).
That's true, but I tried to switch Windows 7 to start using RAID
configuration and failed. I had to roll back to keep working. It was easy to
switch from IDE to AHCI although, but RAID requires a few more hacker's like
unsafe steps including replacement driver references right in the registry,
I saw one article on the Internet, that was tricky. For some reason MS
doesn't load and also doesn't let us load the RAID drivers if the computer
"thinks" that there is no device installed.
I hate the systems thinking for me or restricting me in something that I
know should be done somehow. Same for floppy, luckily resolved finally!
Just D.
