Topic: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

Hi,

Ok, so I was building an universal image for Windows 7 and all went fine until DriverForge got into action and tried to install drivers on first logon. After some google it seems that DriverForge and W7 is not compatible.

The issue seems to be the following command on W7:
rundll32 syssetupdll,updatepnpdevicedrivers

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/9390 … indows.png

So, how do You update drivers automatically on W7?

Thank You in advance for any hints!

BR,
Chris

Re: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

Did you read our docs from the home page?

http://driverpacks.net/docs/miscellaneo … -dism-muiz.
http://driverpacks.net/docs/miscellaneo … er-attempt

Also check out the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

All of these will require WAIK from MS. If you download the MDT then WAIK is downloadable from the MDT GUI.

You could also use DPINST.exe (MS).

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Re: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

Hi,

No, sorry hmm

I built an answer file with WAIK and I was thinking of using FOG to distribute the universal image once done. My colleague is working on MDT and my first opinion was that it seems to suck quite hard vs. FOG (allthough MDT has its good sides..).

I do not know what DPINST.exe is, I will look into this right now. Thank You a lot for Your fast reply!

BR,
Chris

Re: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

It sucks less than most MS tools wink

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Re: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

Hehe, confirmed! smile

I found a prog called Driver Pack Suite & Driver Installer but none of these are as good as DriverForge for WINXP. (=> have found no way to install drivers silently yet at least..)

Re: W7 driver installation after image task (DriverForge)

Stay tuned, I need to nail down a few loose ends with DriverPacks BASE, once that is done I will be starting a tool to add drivers to W7 (and it will probably be compatable with Vista, but i am not going to kill myself to achieve Vista compatability wink).

The Win 7 Driver tool for DriverPacks will be the basis for a new Siginet tool (to be named later) but it will be like the RVM Integrator in fit form and feel. We (Wim Leers AKA Bâshrat the Sneaky and myself AKA  Jeff Herre) will create an open source Python application to integrate drivers with NT6 platforms, much like DriverPacks BASE does for NT5. I intend to write it in such a way as for it to be easily forked into the new Win7 Integrator (or whatever we end up naming it) We have been laying the ground work for this application over at http://future.siginetsoftware.com/. Bâshrat the Sneaky, mr_smartepants, Muiz and I are all on the siginet development team. In as much as we are all volunteers whom are working for nothing / free it takes a while to find the spare time to devote to creating a quality app. like DriverPacks BASE or RVMI.

But trust me it will happen! Look for it in a location near you soon! big_smile tongue

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