in order to create a drivers only disk
1. create a method 1 install and burn the $oem$ folder to a cd
2. You're Done.... its that simple. that cd IS a "drivers only disc"
that discusion has gotten way off topic ---- " [HOWTO] create a drivers-only disc " (see above)
They are actually discussing trying to add KTD (Keep The Driver) functionality to an existing system.
Only a bench technician would find this useful - and a bench tech would have an extra drive laying around he could install with KTD enabled from the start. So very few people would need or want this if any at all. A drivers only disk (CD) and a KTD installation upgrade are not the same thing at all... not even close. so I am not suprized that you are confused.
many here have gotten the idea that the finisher magicaly will make unknown devices dissappear, and it wont.
an example of what the finisher does would be like the nvidia control panel shorcut and the taskbar icon.
that kind of stuff. the nvidia driver would be installed when you updated the device driver from device manager and told it to search your CD with the $OEM$ folder on it but non of the features would be available. (no control panel shortcut) [These types of things are normaly run from a hardware manufacurers driver installation program.] if you run the finisher it would see that you have the nvidia card installed and would associate the devices HWID with the exception that installs the stuff that is not part of the actual driver (the control panel icon and taskbar shortcut). Most of the drivers in the packs dont even have a single exception to be applied. As the name implies these are 'exceptions' both nvidia and ati are good examples of ones that do have exceptions.
perhaps a simple way of putting this is "Many of the drivers in the packs don't even require the Finisher".
lets discuss why this could be a very bad thing. Suppose you installed without KTD and a Nvidia card and got the CPL icon and the Taskbar thing going on and switched to a ATI card then did the KTD upgrade with finisher now you would have the ati cpl and the nvidia cpl and both taskbar icons. if it doesn't crash. i belive you shouldn't run the finisher more than once per install -if you need to run the finisher again you probaly need to install again. lets say i were to upgrade a device or even two on a machine. If it were me i would just install the latest driver off the net rather than to fool with forceing the finisher to run on the entire driverpacks.
I have tried to explain this several times now without boring everyone to tears.
no it will never support the command line, it does exactly what it was written for - (which isn't what you think it does)
Im definately not going to code unneccessary garbage into it.
I am sure Bâshrat the Sneaky won't either. we cant eve get people to read simple instructions in the ini files ;P
Last edited by OverFlow (2007-07-18 16:45:49)