Looks that way 
now all i need is to find a driverpack for modems (silly people and there silly old ways)
1 2006-09-06 07:30:03
Re: [SOLVED] Making a stand alone driver CD (13 replies, posted in Other)
2 2006-09-05 09:05:42
Re: [SOLVED] Making a stand alone driver CD (13 replies, posted in Other)
Thank you for your replies to this, but It appears i was not very clear on my intentions for this so i will try and explain it again.
I am using your DriverPacks in systems where i may or my not have done the OS install. If i decompress the driver packs and stick them all on a DVD and updates drivers and tell it to search the DVD it finds nearly everything every time. Say for example computer X gets a new sound card, well rather then finding the drivers for it (which i more then likely don't have with me) i just plop in that nice old DVD and like magic its done. The only problem is not all of the computers i have to deal with have DVD drives in them. I want to stick them all on 1 CD but the size of them uncompressed is to large for a CD. This is why i wanted to CAB them possibly. It wouldn't be any problem actually installing all the drivers to the system, but i am unsure how to do this without slipstreaming them into the install CD.
The slipstreamed version also runs into a lack of space to but i can do an overburn and take care of that. But the question is since it can be compressed into the slipstream can i just pull it out after its been placed in cabs and put just those cabs on a CD?
3 2006-09-05 06:58:53
Re: [SOLVED] Making a stand alone driver CD (13 replies, posted in Other)
A large USB stick might be an option, but the problem is, i do a lot of installs and hardware changes. and not all of the systems have a DVD drive. I know i can split it across several CD's but thats just rather a pain and would be really nice to be able to stick in 1 CD and handle all the drivers. I am not really sure how the windows cab files are setup, i don't think its a strait up search within it i seem to remember reading some where their is a lot more to it then just that.
4 2006-09-05 04:06:39
Topic: [SOLVED] Making a stand alone driver CD (13 replies, posted in Other)
I am looking at combining at least most if not all the driver packs into a stand alone CD as a universal driver disk. I have done this with a DVD by unpacking all the driver packs, but i would like to be able to keep them compressed in a cab file that windows would be able to search through. is this possible or can anyone suggest a way i can do this?