Preparing network driver directories

To ensure that the server you want to provision has the appropriate network card drivers for Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 x64, you must create directories for those drivers on the Media Server.

To create these directories on the Media Server, perform the following tasks:

1. Log on to Media Server as root.
2. Navigate to Windows_media_share/i386 and create the following directory:

   $OEM$/$1/Drivers/nic

3. Create a subdirectory to which downloaded driver files will be saved. Name the subdirectories in a way that will identify the drivers they contain. For example:

   SC1425

4. Grant at least 755 permissions to the newly created directory and subdirectories.
5. Copy the driver files to the newly created directory suing the Import Media tool.
6. If you need to specify OEM drivers, add a line similar to the following in the [Unattended] section of the unattend.xml file and reference the directory win which you are storing the drivers. For example:

   OEMPnPDriversPath = "Drivers\NIC;Drivers\NIC\SC1425 "

For more information about drivers, refer to http://support.microsoft.com.