Confused by Wiki Instructions to make Win isos w/ VirtIO drivers- Please clarify

JustaGuy

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I’m confused by the instructions on the Wiki that say to copy boot.wim and install.wim back to the sources folder of the ISO file, because these files didn’t change when I ran the script “win7-inject”. They’re still in the iso just the same as they are outside the iso as they’ve been extracted- they haven’t been modified, their timestamp remains the same.

All the script “win7-inject” did was add 2 dirs to the /tmp/win7 folder called /tmp/win7/bootwim & /tmp/win7/installwim.

/win7/bootwim has in it /win7/bootwim/1 & /win7/bootwim/2, and all of these dirs are empty.

/win7/installwim has in it /win7/installwim/1, /win7/installwim/2, /win7/installwim/3 & /win7/installwim4

In /win7/installwim/1 is /win7/installwim/1/Program Files/VirtIO & /win7/installwim/1/Windows/Setup/Scripts
& in /win7/installwim/2 is /win7/installwim/2/Program Files/VirtIO & /win7/installwim/2/Windows/Setup/Scripts
& in /win7/installwim/3 is /win7/installwim/3/Program Files/VirtIO & /win7/installwim/3/Windows/Setup/Scripts
& in /win7/installwim/4 is /win7/installwim/4/Program Files/VirtIO & /win7/installwim/4/Windows/Setup/Scripts

Each of the VirtIO dirs have all the VirtIO drivers in them from the VirtIO iso, & the Scripts dirs have the SetupComplete scripts in them.

Do I replace the boot.wim file with this bootwim dir? And the install.wim file with the installwim dir?

Do I leave the boot.wim & the install.wim files there in the iso & put these dirs in there with them, or do I remove them since these dirs are replacing them?

Please advise.
 

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