So after finding this great tool called DISM my whole concept of slipstreaming drivers has changed. DISM takes the functionality from the old vista days and made it work right. I find the DISM command-line syntax a little clunky for some of the more basic operations that can be done just as easily with imagex but it real does revitalize the hotfix slipstreaming process.
You will probably want to open up internet explorer and grab the latest hotfixes from the windows update catalog.
First thing to do is setup your filesystem, mine looks kind of like below:
- \
- DVD\
- Sources\
- install.wim
- Sources\
- UPDATES\
- Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978262)\
- AMD64-all-windows6.1-kb978262-x64_e5ebdbe04f28c08be08845a87077e1c7dbac57d1.msu
- Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB978262)\
- MOUNT
With the filesystem setup correctly, you will have a copy of the windows 7 dvd stored in your DVD folder, all of your hotfixes in the updates folder, and the mount folder will be empty.
Now we are going to mount the image file install.wim so we can manipulate the files which will be installed during windows 7 installation.
With the image mounted we then run the DISM operating system package servicing command to actually slipstream a new hotfix:
If everything goes right then you will see a message like the following in the command prompt:
The operation completed successfully.
You can repeat the above command several times to slipstream all the latest hotfixes directly into your unattended installation dvd.
When you have finished slipstreaming, commit and unmount the drive to wrap everything up.
After this process i have also found i have to open up the image file with the Windows AIK Deployment tool to rebuild the indexes before i can burn the image to dvd and install Windows 7 anew.
