Re: [Unattended] DriverPacks.net

[Donofrio, Lewis]

Title: Re: [Unattended] DriverPacks.net

Folks we need to move this project twards a winpe logic (aka bartspe for the folks that want real names to device drivers - no limit to path)

--just my 2 cents considering in vista do not expect to see a 8/16-bit setup/setup32.
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Subject: Re: [Unattended] DriverPacks.net

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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