Tyler Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HP has taken to bundling their drivers into binary executables called
SoftPAQs. It is possible to extract the contents from the executable,
but still the driver setup files do not contain .inf files that point to
dlls, etc. The driver setup files are all in setup.exe format. This
makes it impossible to place drivers into the $oem$\$1 directory and have
them installed during setup.
The PC comes from the vendor, installed with all the drivers you need.
You can rip these drivers out of the vendor's build and add them to
your build. Get a PC fresh from is box, start it up and complete the
vendor's (sysprep) build. After XP or Win2000 starts, run PnPRipper (link
below) and you will get a zip file containing all the drivers you need.
This tool is simple to use. You could ask desktop engineers to always
run it first when new types of PC arrive at the office so you always have
the drivers you need. The zip files can also be used to create a PC
picklist menu to copy the right PnP drivers onto the PC before Windows
Setup runs.
http://www.geocities.com/pnpripper
> HP has taken to bundling their drivers into binary executables called
SoftPAQs. It is possible to extract the contents from the executable,
but still the driver setup files do not contain .inf files that point to
dlls, etc. The driver setup files are all in setup.exe format. This
makes it impossible to place drivers into the $oem$\$1 directory and have
them installed during setup.
The PC comes from the vendor, installed with all the drivers you need.
You can rip these drivers out of the vendor's build and add them to
your build. Get a PC fresh from is box, start it up and complete the
vendor's (sysprep) build. After XP or Win2000 starts, run PnPRipper (link
below) and you will get a zip file containing all the drivers you need.
This tool is simple to use. You could ask desktop engineers to always
run it first when new types of PC arrive at the office so you always have
the drivers you need. The zip files can also be used to create a PC
picklist menu to copy the right PnP drivers onto the PC before Windows
Setup runs.
http://www.geocities.com/pnpripper
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