Where does windows installation search for drivers to install?

[Windows 11]

Hello, I often deploy custom windows 10 and 11 images using WDS, but I'm not able to understand where the installation process looks for driver to install during the installation. I know after the installation and the first boot, windows looks for .inf files in c:\windows\inf , but it seems not to be the same during the installation process. I tried to mount boot.wim with dism and add .inf files in the c:\windows\inf folder of the mounted image, but drivers still won't install. I don't want to include drivers in install.wim or boot.wim by installing them with dism /add-driver option, because I

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