[hoppy]

Nice tool. I made a unattended cd with lots and lots of drivers on it (many friends ask me to install and configure their pc) but I can't use it for all of them.
example if used on nvidia drivers it installs only in english and some functions aren't available (the pre-settings for most common games etc )
But an inf install during setup from the full map does it right.
There are no diffrences in the inf so why ???? I realy don't know.
Never the less awsome tool

[Acheron]

nVidia's using the coinstaller to setup additional components.

However I'm creating a minimalistic XP setup and don't need those extra's. They just consume lots of memory when used.
With the minimal nVidia drivers I can play all 3D-games without any problems

@Hoppy, tell me which drivers are causing problems and I'll take a look at it.

[Xable]

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installshield decompressor tools:
http://www.cdmediawo...rom/files.shtml

Thanx sixpack for the link, cant seem to get the cabs to extract though, most likely i`m doing somthing wrong. I have no experience doing this maybe somone can point me in the right direction.

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Even the Epson drivers ( 3.75 MB compressed with SZDD ) goes down to 2.40 MB's thumbup.gif

Great work.
BTW, have done nlite install with these drivers and all seems well, have got rid of cat files aswell & saved another half a meg I thank you.

[sixpack]

i have a question to
i use ati drivers, and when i exstract the setup.exe there are subfolders.
is it the best way to copy all of the contense of every subfolder in to one and then run your driver batch?

[hoppy]

Version: 66.93 (Got rid of the setup exe en stuff but kept other dll's)
I myself don't need the extra's as I know you don't need them, but the biggest isue is the language (dutch) isn't selected. It's for the people I install windows for.

[sixpack]

hoppy, on Jan 12 2005, 11:31 AM, said:

Version: 66.93 (Got rid of the setup exe en stuff  but kept other dll's)
I myself don't need the extra's as I know you don't need them, but the biggest isue is the language (dutch) isn't selected.  It's for the people I install windows for.

66.93 is Nvidia

[hoppy]

Sixpack this was a reply on a question of hp38quser not on your's

[sixpack]

hoppy, on Jan 12 2005, 02:02 PM, said:

Sixpack  this was a reply on a question of  hp38quser not on your's

use the quote button
or @name

[hoppy]

sixpack, on Jan 12 2005, 07:19 AM, said:

hoppy, on Jan 12 2005, 02:02 PM, said:

Sixpack  this was a reply on a question of  hp38quser not on your's

use the quote button
or @name

sorry, will do next time.

[Acheron]

@Hoppy, For dutch language in nVidia Config Panel you only have to copy nvrsnl.dll to the system32 directory. You can copy this file uncompressed in your unattended installation to the following directory:

$OEM$\$$\System32.

For other languages you can use the same file, with the bold text replaced by the language code.

@Sixpack, you have to look for a subdir with an inf and some driver files ( .sys, .dll ), when you get an error that some files are missing, note them down and try to find out if the files are included with the ATI Setup file. Then copy only those files to the directory containing the installation inf and redo the process.

@Ionit, tested your Speedtouch USB drivers with i6comp.exe, you have to type this:

i6comp.exe e -f data2.cab *.* "C:\SpeedtouchDrivers"

You get a lot of directories, but only some are relevant: PPPoA, PPPoE and WDM. Make sure you only use the "SpeedTouch 330 ADSL Modem Update" drivers, these are newer.

[moesasji]

hp38guser, on Jan 7 2005, 03:42 AM, said:

It's a batch file with 1-click behaviour to compress all drivers needed by the driver inf. It compresses all drivers Windows uses during Hardware Installation and copies it to a new directory. You can include that driver folder in the $OEM$ driver part of Winnt.sif for your unattended cd. Driver Compressor doesn't touch setup-infs so this method does also work with digitally signed drivers.

Just copy compress.cmd to the driver dir and execute it.
It recognizes driver files, even if they are compressed yet!

All files are copied to a new subdir so don't worry if something goes wrong

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your work with us. As a newbie to unattended installs, I've been reading up on the different methods and possibilities. I'm not a programmer though, nor a very technical computer user.

Although I understand you probably want to spend your time on programming, I'd still like to ask you if you could help me out with some more detailed instructions on how to use your program. Maybe an example or a (excuse the use of dutch language, since I don't know the english word for it:) stappenplan can also enlighten the less-experienced user ?

If you would be so kind to post an example, maybe you can come up with an example that uses the driverpacks by Bashrat: they seem to include all possible drivers and if you can explain where to copy them and then how to use you program, I would be very grateful.

Anyhow, again my thanks for sharing your work and thoughts. It's sharing of work and thoughts that will keep the world turning !

[Mekrel]

bucketbuster, on Jan 8 2005, 04:02 AM, said:

hp38guser, on Jan 7 2005, 04:49 AM, said:

nVidia drivers are known to be over 40 MB, but then I noticed the setup.inf method Windows uses during hardware installation copies less files than the nVidia installer.
Now you can trim down your nVidia drivers to less than 10 MB.

Do you mean compressed or decompressed?

After using your batch on nVidiadrivers, three directories were created:
1. A maindirectory called Display
2. Two subdirectories in Display called nv4_disp and nv4disp2

Which directory do I need for my Unattended Disc?
They both have almost the same files but nv4_disp is a little bigger (about 0.02mb).

BTW, I have a Geforce4 TI4200 8x AGP

EDIT:
What is installed by nVidia-installer that isn't installed by windows-setup.inf-method?

Hi, I would like the same answer to this question, with Nvidea graphics drivers i get 2 sub directories, which do I use?

Also, do I just use the files created how I usualy would?

i.e: put them into folders in the $OEM$\$1\drivers\device folders and then point to them in the PnPdriverspath in Winnt.sif?

If so then this tool is brilliant, so handy for reducing bloated nvidea drivers.

Many thanks

[Acheron]

@Mekrel, this tool is for compressing the driver files for use with the $OEM$\$1\Driver method. You can change the subdirectory name and copy it to your unattended installation folder. Just follow the steps at http://unattended.ms.../xp/drivers.htm after you have compressed the drivers.

For the nVidia drivers I don't know which driver inf you can use. But you can find it out for your hardware in the Device Manager, select your Display card, select to update the driver, point it manually to your compressed driver and press ok, when you leave the compatiblity checked you can see if the inf has support for your card. If not, try the other

[Mekrel]

Brilliant,

Thanks alot mate, got my nvidea drivers down from 57mb, to 17 , and gotta delete one of them graphic drivers ones still. Now down to 11.7mb atfter deleteing the nv_dsp2 folder.

, good luck with your programing.

[swgreed]

indeed a VERY useful batchfile!

this would slim down Bâshrat the Sneaky's driverpacks quite a lot

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

swgreed, on Jan 13 2005, 06:48 PM, said:

indeed a VERY useful batchfile! 

this would slim down Bâshrat the Sneaky's driverpacks quite a lot

Indeed! I've already sent hp38guser a PM a couple of days ago

I will definetely use cab compression for the winnt.sif method from now!

[sixpack]

@hp38guser
i have meaby a stupid question, but your batch file cab's the setup.inf to.
does windows uncab it to for the install or must i copy the orginal inf file to in the folder that has bin created

[Acheron]

Sixpack, the setup.inf file shouldn't get compressed, unless it's specified in another inf. Windows need an uncompressed inf in the driver directory. Please tell me which driver package caused this behaviour

[sixpack]

DELL v. 5.12.01.3508, A19

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/...eleaseid=R45973

[Acheron]

Update:

- now only skips lines beginning with ";"
- prevent compressing main inf and catalogfile

Thanks SixPack

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