Alson van der Meulen wrote on 29/04/2006 04:06
- Generally, could we find an algorithm to condense the given Bashrat
structure toward a shorter OemPnPDriversPath?
I actually wrote a perl script for this until I realized that this is
impossible (bang head on desk). There are about 490 directories in my
version of the Driverpacks (may be a month old or so). In my condensed
version, I need about 2 characters per directory. Since everything
starts with D\ and ends with ;, this is about 5 characters per
directory, or about 2500 total.
I hadn't thought of that. Good point. I've heard reports that copying drivers
into one directory can work, and I guess that might be one reason why it works.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that it would not be a general solution for the
Bashrat DriverPack directories since some of them contain files with identical
names.
My ideas to solve this:
- Only add the mass storage and LAN drivers to unattend.txt, and add the
sound/VGA/WLAN/CPU drivers somewhere in the textmode/GUI setup part.
- Use one of the original BTS methods that unpacks (we could skip the
unpacking if this would improve performance) the drivers somewhere in
the textmode setup. I don't think the 1024 character limit is a
problem in this part. Method 1 seemed the cleanest if I remember
correctly.
I am interested in both potential solutions. My goal is functional breadth and
depth, so if either of these techniques will help, I'm interested.
The second seems to be the easiest solution [...] but the disadvantage
is that you have to run the BTS cmd file (from BTS_base) for each
Windows installation (on a Windows box), instead of just symlinking
yhe D directory.
I have not tested this in combination with unattended yet, I believe it
also modified winnt.sif to install some auxiliary software for the
drivers, this should be done via todo.pl in unattended.
To be honest, I don't yet grok the Unattended system and I'm not sure how all those parts
work and interact. I'm hoping that the BTS cmd file might be run via todo.pl as part of
postinst.bat, and that the winnt.sif can be modified as part of a "preparation"
phase maybe?
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