Vista driverpacks and slipstreamer (Page 1 of 3)

agreed

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its time, I said SP1. rats...

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Not true.
You can download the SP1-integrated ISO from MSDN or TechNet accounts for OEM users (not retail).
Unfortunately, I don't have either.

You can also make your own integrated ISO using the tute over at winbeta.org.  Helmi did it (I think)

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That is NOT a slipstreamable SP1 !! but a complete DVD with SP1 integrated, and only english.

What you mean is Vista SP1 Reverse Integration :
http://www.winbeta.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=9536

Works fine, i did this myself, but you have to sysprep.

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So Vista is still a huge mess... typical for MS OS release.

i remember when they released 2000
and they did so with Sixty Four THOUSAND [64,000] KNOWN bugs
(plus the ones reported after release)

It is amazing Linux or someone like Sun/Solaris has not simply crushed them.

at some point their enemies will band together and make it happen. It's just a matter of them achieving critical mass.
Mac, Novel, Netscape, Citrix and a slew of others who have been victimized over the years.
if MS can't buy them they create a substitute and include it for free.
A slow and painful death for the competition and no viable recourse, at the very least it's heartless, at most it's evil.
I believe lack of third party software support for alternate Os's has been a stumbling block.
more and more software providers are now writing their apps for Linux / Mac (OS 10 is Linux based, and was written on an i386 PC)
I also believe that novel has jumped on the Linux bandwagon too.

They have a total lack of respect for, their users, the software providers that depend on them, and their competition.
I am a firm believer in what goes around comes around... it will happen in our lifetime.

Unfortunately there is no viable substitute to offer my clients, at least not today...
PS i still think Vista is destined to end up next to ME in the history books and I sincerely hope that 2009 brings happiness to all.

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can i assume you have at least 2 gig of ram?
i have low latency (cas2) ddr 400 and it's still expensive.
so i have to buy a new machine and get at least two gig of ram? it's a pig.

but fear not, I am a man of my word. Vista support is in the works.

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any chance of getting documentation/how-to or source for the Vista-Tool.exe

I didn't know of the info in this thread was still current
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=2449

it does seem like Vista is taking over like wild fire...
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
another 6 months and they might hit 10%

2008          WinXP  W2000 Win98 Vista   W2003  Linux  Mac
February     72.3%  4.0%   1.0%   7.6%  1.8%   3.8%  4.3%
January       73.6%  4.0%   0.8%   7.3%  1.9%   3.6%  4.4%
               
2007          WinXP  W2000 Win98  Vista  W2003 Linux   Mac
November   73.8%  5.1%   1.0%  6.3%  2.0%   3.3%   3.9%
September  74.3%  5.4%   0.9%  4.5%  2.0%   3.4%   3.9%
July            74.6%  6.0%   0.9%  3.6%  2.0%   3.4%   4.0%
May            75.0%  6.5%   0.9%  2.8%  1.9%   3.4%   3.9%
March         76.0%  7.2%   0.9%  1.9%  1.9%   3.4%   3.8%
January      76.1%  7.7%   1.0%  0.6%  1.9%   3.6%   3.8%

I am serious about getting this done.
Give me something that has proven to work to get me started codeing while I still have some free time.

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Hi
for SP1 you need WAIK 1.1.

it is more advanced than waik 1.0
This should contain a powershell "compliant" tool which can export the unattended.xml for you.
(and you will need an xml for each OS, not just ultimate... You can actually also configure the unattended.xml so it looks for the images and files on a deployment server.)

@ OverFlow; There is a bit of good news.
Vista drivers should work for server 2008, and the WAIK 1.1 can handle 2008 just fine.
The server manager tool in 2008 and powershell/waik tools work seamlessly together.
I will soon start toying with things like this and the presentations I saw at techdays will be of help.

Last edited by Jaak (2008-03-13 08:32:19)

Hi,

A driverpacks for Vista (>NT6) would be welcome.

There are a few discussions on boot land regarding the lack of drivers and need for a good method to include them on WinPE 2.x boot disks.

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.p … topic=4150

We can also help with testing and providing feedback regarding how it works under VistaPE/WinPE

These are good news!

So what should the first step be to start working on this?

Count with me as beta tester for Vista experiences and I know a few more good people who are available to do heavy testings and report back their experiences.

The Vista Install DVD already comes with a very significant repository of drivers and they are separate in two components.

- The drivers that are included inside Windows PE 2.x

- The drivers inside the windows folder meant to be used by the installed windows.

WinPE 2.x will surely need support for LAN/WIFI and Mass Storage drivers as newer hardware will likely require drivers not included by default on the DVD files.