1 Reply by a1computers

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I have had no luck in getting this to work from the hard drive useing mode 2 as described in the first post.
I followed scottb instructions for a network install even though the files are actually locally. Directions came from this thread: http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=227
I guess to get this to work I have to redo the whole thing and understand what is actually going on. I can simply uncompress all the drivers and put them in a directory off the root lets call it c:\dpacks. then in presetup.com I can just do the last few steps:

rem presetup.com
\bin\DevPath.exe \dpacks\D
START \dpacks\DSPdsblr.exe
EXIT

I need to understand what is going on here and how the drivers actually end up getting installed.
Why does the devpath.exe just get run and dspdsblr.exe need the start command?

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2 Reply by a1computers

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I must be an idiot because I still can't find the 8.10. The homepage I assume you are referring to is http://driverpacks.net. The second post I see is:

DriverPacks BASE 8.09.rc1 - We need your comments, Please!
Posted on 2008-09-21 08:42:39 by OverFlow

This look like 8.09.rc1 not 8.10.rcx.
If I do a find in IE on the homepage for 8.10 I find talk about it but no link to actually download it.
Are we talking about different homepages?
Thanks.

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3 Reply by a1computers

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Thanks for the response. I am going to play with the SAD today. I am confused about versions though. I have base 8.05 which is the only version available from the driverpacks download. I can find a 8.09RC1 from a link in the third party section but I don't see an 8.10 version anywhere. Where is the OEM directory. Is that after I run base. I do not see any such directory beforehand. Could you please provide a direct link to the download for driverpacks base 8.10. Thanks.

OverFlow wrote:

Your method is not currently supported - at least not directly...
IE we support setup.exe for disk method not setup32.exe...
the win32 setup will always fail for method 2 (since setup.ex_ is never called )

but method one will work, as long as you don't need all the packs.
M1 will only make the first 4096 charachters of the drivers paths available

I don't know what you mean for method 2. I run winnt32.exe not setup32. For method 1 it did compress the drivers for 1 hour 29 minutes and I did get a message that it was too long. I continued anyway but it did not install any drivers and gave no indication that driverpacks did anything. I don't even think winnt32.exe copied the drivers over. Do I have to do that seperately? Can I look at the hard drive before moving it to a new machine to see if the drivers have been copied and what do I look for?
Thanks for a great resource. I will be making a donation from the top donate link as soon as I get some funds in my paypal account. This has already saved a lot of time hunting for drivers and I can only assume more savings in the future.

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4 Topic by a1computers

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I have successfully created a DVD using driverpacks and Dell OEM CD w/SP3 slipstreamed. I used nlite to create the DVD. It woorks great.
It install all drivers on my test Dell GX260 which are not normally installed. Now I would like to create a version that can work by installing onto a temporary second hard drive then removing the second hard drive and installing it into a new machine, probably different hardware, and letting it do the install. I can get this to work fine w/o driverpacks but using install method 1 or 2 does not install any drivers just the bare OS. The command I am using from run is e:\i386\winnt32.exe /tempdrive:d /syspart:d /makelocalsource /noreboot. This runs from the slipstreamed DVD including driverpacks and set up drive D which is then removed and installed into another machine as the primary drive. It then continues the install perfectly except no driverpacks are installed. I have made a combination of the winnt.sif from the slipstreamed DVD and the winnt32 command which is listed below. This is copied to the hard drive before moving it to the new machine. It seems to work as it does not ask me any of the typical questions.
The idea of this whole process is to creat a ghost image of the secondary hard drive which can be ghosted over the network to any machine to install Windows XP SP3 with driverpacks.
; Generated by nLite 1.4.9.1

[Data]
msdosinitiated="1"
floppyless="1"
AutoPartition="0"
InstallDir="\WINDOWS"
uniqueid="C:\WINDOWS\FCD"
OriSrc="E:\"
OriTyp="5"

AutomaticUpdates="Yes"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
UnattendSwitch="Yes"
OemPreinstall="Yes"
OemSkipEula="Yes"
FileSystem=*
WaitForReboot="No"
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[SystemRestore]
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk=10
RestorePointLife=60

[GuiUnattended]
EncryptedAdminPassword="No"
AutoLogon="Yes"
AdminPassword=*
TimeZone=035
OEMSkipRegional=1
OemSkipWelcome=1

[Components]

[UserData]
ProductKey="key deleted"
ComputerName=DELL
FullName="OWNER"

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1,17
Language= "0409"

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents="Yes"

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup="WORKGROUP"



Thanks for any help.
Sincerely,
Ed Daniels

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