3rd Party DriverPacks - TUTORIAL (Page 2 of 3)

I highly recommend DriverBackup for driverpack making.
I use it for my custom personal Driverpacks, if you leave the uncompressd driver installers folder somewhere on your C: Drive it will grab everything, I mean EVERYTHING! even the x64 driver files that were not installed on your PC

Here is a Beta of version 2 that does not use .Net 1.1 http://www.mytempdir.com/1249856

MSFN Forum Topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=83960

Last edited by ricktendo64 (2007-03-11 13:52:50)

My Windows 7 integration instructional videos

Can't get my "3rd party DriverPack" to work on Server 2003!

Heres what I did:

Made these folders on my desktop:

XP\DRIVER_CAB
2003\DRIVER_CAB

XP\INI_CAT_INF_SYS
2003\INI_CAT_INF_SYS

1 - Extracted the Server 2003 "DRIVER.CAB" into "2003\DRIVER_CAB\"

2 - Extracted the XP "DRIVER.CAB" into "XP\DRIVER_CAB\"

3 - Searched XP/I386 for ".cat + .inf + .sys + ca_ + .in_ + .sy_" files.

4 - Extracted the cabbed files and copied the normal (uncabbed files) to: XP\INI_CAT_INF_SYS

5 - Did the same as #4 but for "2003"

6 - Copied the files from XP into the folders for Server 2003, saying "no" too overwriting,
to catch all the files that are in XP but not in Server 2003.

So, I have all the INF, CAT, SYS files that are in XP but not in Server 2003 > all in one folder...

D\3\XP\[All Files]

I make the 7-Zipped archive on "Ultra" compression, with dictionary size of 256.

I make my ISO.

I install my ISO and I can see indeed, there are 11 driverpacks! So my custom pack
is indeed extracting to the systemdrive.

When Windows has installed, the sound driver is not installed in VMware. Also, this
has STOPPED the network connectivity (internet) as well!

All I need to know is - is there something wrong with my folder structure?

I tried:

D\3\XP\[All Files] and also D\3\R\XP\[All Files] and nither one works.

Whats funny is on a standard install, without driverpacks, the ethernet in VMware,
with Server 2003, does work. Sound drivers never work, unless I use Method 1
and put the sound drvers in "$1\D\XPD" but forget that, my path is over 6000
characters doing it that way!

I guess I could leave out all the graphics drivers and WLAN... then maybe my path
for "OemPnPDriversPath" will be OK and I can add the XP drivers that way, I have
already tried it that way and I know it works.

Wish I could work this out, I have been trying for 2 days, ever since DriverPacks v7.04

OK heres a few things: I know for definite this is not failing because of Server 2003,
I know this because the old "OemPnPDriversPath" way of installing the sound drivers
does work, as long as the path starts with "D\XPD;" even if its well under the 4096 limit
it doesn't matter, if the XPD folder is specified at the END of that path it doesn't work, if
its specified at the beginning, it does work.

I am only talking about VMware, as a test case, because in XP the sound driver does install
in VMware, in Server 2003 it does not install the sound driver, I mean on standard installs
without driverpacks.

Heres a question then: Is there any way of installing drivers silently like this but AFTER the installation?
A way of making Windows do what it does during setup when it uses OemPnPDriversPath from WINNT.SIF
but after DpsFnshr.exe has done its work?

Its just so frustrating to know it should be working and isn't.

Sorry Bashrat, I never even keep my log file... I will make an ISO that does not remove
the log file and see....

Last edited by LeveL (2007-04-08 16:10:10)

OK heres something - I am making a few x64 driverpacks, not to slipstream, just so I have the drivers.

I have found that theres a lot of CHM files.

I searched the INF file for "SourceDisksFiles" and theres no reference to "SourceDisksFiles" there.

Also, all these CHM files are listed in the INF file and they are even referenced in their own heading, example:

[nvcpl.chm]
file=thiscab
FileVersion=0,0,0,0

[nvCpl.cpl]
file=thiscab
FileVersion=1,4,13,8

[nvcplARA.chm]
file=thiscab
FileVersion=0,0,0,0

[nvcplCHS.chm]
file=thiscab
FileVersion=0,0,0,0

Can I just remove all the references to the CHM files and delete the CHM files?

Reason is they don't compress very well and... why would you ever need a few dozen language files not even in your language?

Safe to remove CHM files? So long as the references are also removed from the INF?

Last edited by LeveL (2008-01-06 00:13:22)

Hey folks

I*ve done like it has been written. But my drivers pack is not shown in the base. So the checkbox is grayed out! Has there to be an inf-file ? somewhere?

Thx Binog

ohh ,. yeah.--- i'm sorry,..

DP_myPack_15001008.7z
C:\driverpacks_new\3rd party DriverPacks\
tried in C:\driverpacks_new\DriverPacks\ as well

those above ;-)
(I think txtmode aswell as pnp)

Does that help? I mean: It's not a "Can't install"-thing. my archive is just not shown in base-app. its grayed out !

Thx in advance !

Thank You very much

This renaming made it !

Thx dude!

Well, the dups I know, just want to make shure I have mine onboard. I don't use all of the official packs!

Thx again !

Hi
I will repeat this tip.
if you want small size, then you could just as well learn how to edit the DriverPacks INI files and prune unwanted folders.

The advantage of this approach is that the INI will handle the exceptions you left in.
(prune means selective deletion of unwanted folders.. When there is a corresponding section in the INI file packed alongside of the drivers and you remove a folder which got referenced in the INI, then you edit that INI and remove the corresponding section.)

What is what?
The overview page has links to supported DEVICES, which is fairly accurate.
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/overview.php

Last edited by Jaak (2008-02-29 13:40:00)

Yup sound advice here just downloaded the little app for this reason since im hoping to make my own packs which will be rather large.

When I place massstorage drivers (textmode) in the 3rd driver pack will these also be slipstreamed in the textmode part like the standard masstorage driver packs?

Hi folks!

im new to this, and i just wanted to create my own driver pack.
my file is called: DP_IntelDriverDell360_wnt5_x86-32_08.11.27.7z

i need this driver on a floppy disk to include the driver for my BartPE.
Problem is: I cant boot my BartPE with the Dell OptiPlex 360
This new PC from Dell got an AHCI Option in the BIOS set, and iam not able to change this option to ATA, coz Dell made it to standard (i guess).
My BSOD is 7B, may someone knows that problem, i tried to solve this directly in BartPE with including necessary SATA Drivers, with no success.
Well now my last option is to include those missing drivers with an floppy disk using F6.

I hope you guys can help me :-/

Rgrds
Sebastian

Well, i allready did this before... and it wasnt working with your driver packs...
Thats why i have to include them via floppy disk...
The Driver Package folder is allready in my plugin folder.
FYI: im running BartPE on a USB-Stick, can there be a problem?
Its running on all Dell Notebooks and PCs instead of the OptiPlex 360.
But on the other devices i can disable that AHCI Option in the BIOS.

Any other solution?

rgrds
sebastian

hi, just a comment about the way you wrote that name.
DP_IntelDriverDell360_wnt5_x86-32_08.11.27.7z
It has too many dots.

DP_myNONtxtModeDriver_wnt5_x86-32_081127.7z