Creating the $OEM$ Folder
Each OEMN folder you saw in Figure 7-3 contains an $OEM$ folder. The $OEM$ folder contains your customizations. These are the files that you add to the Windows XP Professional source files, such as third-party device drivers. You must add the line OemPreinstall=Yes to the [Unattended] section of your answer file, as shown in Example 7-6, in order for Setup to add this folder to the target computer. If you don’t set OemPreinstall in your answer file, Setup does not copy the $OEM$ folder to the target computer.
The $OEM$ folder can contain the file cmdlines.txt, which contains commands you want Setup to execute before the installation process finishes. This file is useful for running commands that configure Windows XP Professional ...
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