Win98 -- all kidding aside

[Bart Silverstrim]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 18:30 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Right now I think the only thing I've encountered that it still may be
>> a necessity is the server farm if some versions of Windows needs the
>> PERC driver added at installation.
> 
> I know little about Windows administration, but I hear all the time that
> you can "slipstream" the drivers into an installer CD. This was all the
> rage when Windows failed to install on practically all new computers
> because it lacked a SATA driver. 
> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/How-To--Slipstream-your-XP-installation

Possibly could, just one of those things where the cost-to-benefit ratio 
wasn't enough to try doing that with these servers...rarely needed to do 
a full install under those circumstances, and when it did happen, it was 
a few bits of cursing and an extra half hour of playing with data to 
shuffle it to a usable floppy at the time.

But thanks for the link :-)