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Use DriverPacks.net to add the necessaryhardware drivers rather than trying to find all the necessary ones for your PC.

http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02101.html

http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/latest shows the latest versions of the DriverPacks.

cd /path/to/unattended
mkdir download
cd download

Download the latest packs:
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Chipset_wnt5_x86-32_902.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_CPU_wnt5_x86-32_804.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Graphics_A_wnt5_x86-32_906.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Graphics_B_wnt5_x86-32_906.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Graphics_C_wnt5_x86-32_8121.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Graphics_Languages_wnt5_x86-32_906.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Graphics_A_PhysX_wnt5_x86-32_906.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_LAN_wnt5_x86-32_8121.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_901.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Sound_A_wnt5_x86-32_805.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_Sound_B_wnt5_x86-32_805.7z
wget http://downloads.driverpacks.net/xp/x86/DP_WLAN_wnt5_x86-32_806.7z
cd ..

Unzip the files with 7-zip:
mkdir -p install/site/win_drivers/DriverPacks
cd install/site/win_drivers/DriverPacks
ls ../../../../download/*.7z | xargs -n 1 /usr/local/bin/7za x

Generate a cache file for the driver collection: