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Topic: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

Hello back, everybody.

From reading http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=1503, and seeing the old date, I wanted to ensure that the recorded information still applies to current driverpacks and base tool. So for example, if I update driverpacks GB from 8.12 to 9.06 by slipstreaming again over i386 (http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/wind … ics-b/9.06), the obsolete folders are supposed to be deleted and the inf files to be migrated automatically?

Is that procedure recommended, or would it be safer to begin again with a "virgin" i386 folder instead of just slipstreaming newest GA & GB versions, so that those two get updated while all the other already slipstreamed driverpacks remain intact?

Sorry for all the doubts, but I just wanted to get extra confirmation for stressed people like myself, if possible. :shy:

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

If DriverPacks was the last change you made then DriverPacks BASE can and will remove itself successfully...

If you made any changes after DriverPacks BASE then
when DriverPacks BASE restores all the backup files it made during the original slipstream
any changes made to files after the BASE back up are lost during the restore
and any related files that may be referenced in the restored files are at the same time orphaned. wink 

Hint: you can uninstall DriverPacks by selecting no packs and hitting the slipstream button wink

you can just uninstall DriverPacks before updating... then re slipstream when your finished tweaking


or keep a copy of your source just prior to adding DriverPacks (Reccomended / prefered method)

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

Since you seem confident about the tool's function (and that nothing special have been tweaked after the slipstream), I will then go for that normal slipstream, where most recent driverpacks (such as graphics A and B) are automatically updated over obsolete ones.

It is also good to know that selecting no packs has for effect of uninstalling driverpacks.

farewell,
twipley

Last edited by twipley (2009-07-25 22:33:10)

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

OverFlow, do you think that info (i.e. selecting no packs having as an effect of unslipstreaming previously slipstreamed driverpacks) should be added to this sticky BASE FAQ? http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=1503

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

keeping a copy of your source, just prior to adding DriverPacks is the Reccomended / prefered method big_smile

but it would not hurt to add both facts the the FAQs smile (and tutorial)

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

But updating driverpacks works as good, provided the driverpacks slipstream was the last thing made to the iso?

And by the way, I was talking about adding the fact that "selecting no driverpacks has for effect of unslipstreaming them" to the FAQ, but if you want to add more to it, more's for sure the better! :)

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Re: [BASE] Updating already slipstreamed driverpacks

twipley wrote:

But updating driverpacks works as good, provided the driverpacks slipstream was the last thing made to the iso?

Yes... absolutely - as long as DriverPacks BASE was the last change made to your source.

And by the way, I was talking about adding the fact that "selecting no driverpacks has for effect of unslipstreaming them" to the FAQ, but if you want to add more to it, more's for sure the better! smile

agreed... we are on the same page.

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