Installing SCSI/SAS Drivers Without a Floppy Drive

The Dell PowerEdge I ordered finally came in.  I had ordered it without an OS installed and was eager to remedy that.  I popped the install CD in and booted the beast up.  Didn't take long for me to realize that Windows was not going to be able to see my hard drives until I loaded drivers for the controller and that I had no floppy drive through which to load them.  Without belaboring the point, would it be so difficult to have the windows installer prompt you for a cd from which to load the drivers?

After a short panic, I started looking for solutions on the web.  I read about several approaches where folks were booting from USB drives and executing a subst command to make it look like an A: drive.  Seemed too risky, to me.  Then I found a recommendation for nLiteOS which is a utility that allows you to modify the Windows install CD to include extra drivers, set up unattended installs, include hotfixes in your install and more.  The posting I read said that success could be found by including my SAS driver in the Windows installer.  Once it was added, the utility would generate an ISO image for me and I could burn a new CD from which to boot and do my install. 

I followed the tutorials on the nLiteOS web site and was pleasantly surprised to find that Windows found my drives and I was on my way.