Patent ID: 7660847

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a server computing system responsible for installing operating systems on client computing systems, which drivers are needed for devices on the client computing systems that are not automatically found and installed on the client computing systems during vendor-specified operating system installation on the client computing systems; creating without user interaction, by the server computing system, entries for the drivers within a master driver file that are not already present within the master driver file as stored on the server computing system; copying the master driver file to each client computing system; copying the drivers that are needed for the devices on teach client computing system to the client computing system; for each client computing system, creating references within an unattended installation file for the client computing system to the entries for the drivers of the devices for the client computing system within the master driver file as copied to the client computing system, by the server computing system, wherein the unattended installation file is a different file than the master driver file is.