Last week i was installing Windows XP on my Dell PE 1950. I started with usual process, inserted bootable Windows XP disk and booted from CD-Rom. Installation process started smoothly but i was socked when it came to disk selection screen, there was no disk available message. after doing some googling i came to know that my dell server is having SAS raid controller and normal XP disk doesn't holds driver for same.
My Dell server servers was having "Dell SAS 6/iR Integrated Controller". i downloaded drivers from same from ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/SAS-RAID/R165652.exe
The Very common process to supply custom drivers to windows XP is Put your drivers into Floppy drive and press "F6' you see status message "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver...." during the windows installation and once you will press F6 drivers will be load from floppy. but in my case i didn't had floppy drive in my server. so i was not able to go with this option.
again after doing some googling i found that dell provides a utility to prepare drivers in USB instead of floppy. i used this utility and loaded my SAS drivers during the windows installation and finally i got my hard disks listed on disk selection screen. after that installation went ahead smoothly.
I had many Dell servers where i had to install the XP so i was looking for some utility to merge my drivers into XP disk itself and i got nLite. using nLight i merged my drivers into XP disk itself and now i can install XP on my all servers without any additional drivers as all needed drives are present in disk itself.
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