[Afterdawn]

I read the whole thread.. and it seems this new method is quite a hack on a hack

Well.. it works for the moment, so

This post has been edited by Afterdawn: 22 December 2005 - 04:26 PM

[thuun derboy]

1. Way too much trouble, and I fuss over alot of things.
2. You STILL wind up copying files to HDD.
3. (most important) Winnt.sif adds supports for extra drivers
and if you really shudder at the though of using a del command in you scripts, you may not know how windows uses you HDD in the first place.
4. Why am I wasting my time with this post? Good question! BYE!!

[cyberloner]

actually this method works for slipstreaming sata driver with it....

i dun use OemPnPDriversPath=DRIVERS\ in winnt.sif or copy any sata on my harddisk...
i just edit the txtsetup.sif for hardware stuff ...
and copy some nvraid.SY_ , VIAMRAID.SY_ SI3132.SY_ IASTOR.SY_
in the i386 folder and everything is install well...


just let who dunno about it only... =)

Cheers

[a06lp]

thuun derboy, on Dec 25 2005, 03:18 PM, said:

1. Way too much trouble, and I fuss over alot of things.
2. You STILL wind up copying files to HDD.
3. (most important) Winnt.sif adds supports for extra drivers
and if you really shudder at the though of using a del command in you scripts, you may not know how windows uses you HDD in the first place.
4. Why am I wasting my time with this post? Good question! BYE!!

1) Still way too much trouble? It's so easy - 3 simple steps! What more do you want?

2) Umm... no you don't. What files get copied?

3) What are you talking about?

4) Bye...

cyberloner, on Dec 27 2005, 08:23 AM, said:

actually this method works for slipstreaming sata driver with it....

i dun use OemPnPDriversPath=DRIVERS\ in winnt.sif or copy any sata on my harddisk...
i just edit the txtsetup.sif for hardware stuff ...
and copy some nvraid.SY_ , VIAMRAID.SY_ SI3132.SY_ IASTOR.SY_
in the i386 folder and everything is install well...

Just to clarify: I never said this won't work alongside a different method (which it seems you are doing for sata driver); I was saying using this method alone won't work for mass-storage drivers.
But thanks for posting that it does work, I'm sure others will find the info useful!

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@ all

Well I don't see any files being copied to the Hdd??
All workin very reliably & nicely here.
You fellas ought to do more research prior to postin that nonsense.

Cheers

MC.

[a06lp]

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on Jan 4 2006, 08:54 PM, said:

Well I don't see any files being copied to the Hdd??
All workin very reliably & nicely here.
You fellas ought to do more research prior to postin that nonsense.

EXACTLY!

Thanks you, mav.

[ImForrestGump]

I have 4 questions on the Simple Method.

1. Can I delete the C:\Drivers folder in T-13?
2. If my entire Driver collection is compressed, how will Windows respond if I have to reinstall a specific pnp hardware?

3. If I delete C:\Drivers at T-13, what will happen if I introduce a hardware later that was not installed during setup, but was in my Drivers.7z on the CD (all drivers compressed)?

4. Is this compatible with Windows 2000?

[Afterdawn]

ImForrestGump, on Jan 15 2006, 07:25 AM, said:

I have 4 questions on the Simple Method.

1. Can I delete the C:\Drivers folder in T-13?
2. If my entire Driver collection is compressed, how will Windows respond if I have to reinstall a specific pnp hardware?

3. If I delete C:\Drivers at T-13, what will happen if I introduce a hardware later that was not installed during setup, but was in my Drivers.7z on the CD (all drivers compressed)?

4. Is this compatible with Windows 2000?

1. Yes, because drivers have already been detected at this stage.
2. It will just install them from the location [where you've decompressed the drivers].
3. It will pop-up that it can't find the drivers at [where you've decompressed the drivers] and prompt for a location where they might be.
4. Yes.

This post has been edited by Afterdawn: 15 January 2006 - 01:53 PM

[ImForrestGump]

Thank you for the reply.

I am using vmware to test. The WatchDriverSigningPolicy would not work in my instance, so I wrote a vb6 exe that basically uses a timer control at 500ms and does an AppActivate "Digital Signature Not Found" and then sendkeys "Y", True. Not as efficient as Pyron's c+ version and is 16Kb vs. Pyron's 4K. This worked for my vmware.

Also, I don't know if this is the right forum for video drivers, but you can get more than 640x480 in VMWare during the setup when the logon box finally pops up. After you do the vm iso boot and go through all phases of the setup, you can install the VMware Tools into that instance of vm after initial logon. After that, the video drivers are located in C:\Program Files\VMWare\svga. Copy the 4 or so files to the floppy drive, close vmware so your real PC has access to the floppy drive. Add the VMWare video driver to your driver repository.

I also have a Windows Update script that you can call from RunOnceEx that will connect automatically to either a WSUS enterprise server (takes an additional registry hack) or to windowsupdate.com. Then run shutdown.exe to reboot.

Now, you can truly start setup and, in an hour or so, come back and windows will be up to date. I know some people don't like wu and actually curse at us who do, but this has helped my company tremendously.

I also noticed that I could locate the six or so files from this forum to $OEM$\bin and everything works great. I also changed the default C:\Drivers to %systemroot%\inf\oemdrivers\. This keeps my root of C uncluttered as well as my $OEM$. I already have an inhouse developed utility that I use to set Symantec AV defaults, stores the admin password encrypted (far better than MS way).

[Tommix]

Why need to make all this stuff? With nLite you can very simple as a.b.c integrate drivers.

[tom9191]

Hi.
im new to this forum and this is my first post..
so..
here comes my doubt..its like dis
i donwloaded da driver pack and i extracted dem but it appears as d/c/1/... etc..
is it suppose to be like dis?? am i suppose to do anything more??
thnx ahead..

[5eraph]

@tom9191:

You need DriverPacks_BASE to make any of the other DriverPacks work.

[tom9191]

Hi..its like dis..i already have da drivers pack of Bâshrat the Sneaky's DriverPacks and i extracte4d dem and wat appears is da image inn da attachment..xD

Attached File(s)

•  untitled.JPG (53.48K)
  Number of downloads: 173

[5eraph]

You shouldn't extract anything; DriverPacks_BASE.exe does all the work for you. Just run BASE and follow the instructions.

[tain]

Outstanding work! This method is fast, easy, and effective. It works great with HFSLIP.

Thanks!

[a06lp]

TAiN, on Feb 27 2006, 12:29 AM, said:

Outstanding work! This method is fast, easy, and effective. It works great with HFSLIP.

Thanks!

Glad to hear!

[Unlock]

I've problem.....My pc reboot always after the copy of the files of windows

OK RESOLVED

This post has been edited by Unlock: 01 March 2006 - 06:13 AM

[a06lp]

Unlock, on Feb 28 2006, 10:11 AM, said:

I've problem.....My pc reboot always after the copy of the files of windows

OK RESOLVED

...ok

[Unlock]

new problem:

1)Start installation windows
2)start driver.cmd and I see all operation after, pc restart and blue screen

WHY?

I've many drivers for more pc in drivers directory...Is the problem it?

[tain]

This would be cool as an addon pack. Has anyone tried to build one yet?