Looking for a good DriverPacks Tutorial... (Page 2 of 3)

I am building a manual unattended that is a evolving work in process. I asked because I had earlier success with the driverpacks but the last two times I tried the lastest packs my unattended disk failed. I may or may not have now found out why.

Yes I have used that guide and done the drives manually.

One way off topic question. Can you set up an unattended disk to work on 3 different home computers that each have their own different product keys or do you have to put in the product keys on each install making it not a true unattended install?

Thanks for answer. I would be nice if you could set it up to auto activate them unattended or at least to give you an option to select which system you installing on and have it auto activate that one. That is beyond me for now. I still haven't been able to get my auto-activation to even work yet for just one install

You should make those changes before slipstreaming the DriverPacks. If you still want to make changes, make them to both the current txtsetup.sif and the backed up file, txtsetup.org. If you don't, you'll lose your changes the next time you use the DriverPacks BASE on the same installation files.

And yes, I make my unattended installation discs manually. But only as far manually is relevant. It'd be incredibly stupid to not use the DriverPacks BASE or the RVM Integrator, for example.

Sorry for my ignorance , but what is method 1 or method 2 , where can i read them in detail . Thanks so much

Hi,

I'm new to all this stuff. So far I only have slipstreamed SP2 into WinXP a year ago. Because of malware I have to reinstall three PC's at home (PIII-450 - PIV-253). Looking for a way to slipstream post-SP2 updates I found RVM Integrator and a link to DriverPacks. It seems a great way to save the trouble searching for actual drivers for a variety of hardware. I spent hours reading the forum to find out how to do this. At least one problem remaines:

Including all driverpacks takes 266MB (uncompressed). The WinXPsp2 directory takes 453 MB (after deleting LANG, WINNTUPG, WIN9XMIG and WIN9XUPG, yet add-ons excluded). This won't fit on a CD. I understood this can be solves in different ways:

-use DVD (no option, because only two PC's have one);
-put drivers on network (seems complicated);
-put drivers on a seperate CD (needs 3th party software and seems complicated);
-delete more from the WinXPsp2 directory (however, I haven't the knowledge what to -safely- delete furthermore);
-remove drivers I won't need, like SCSI, RAID (however, I can't figure out how to do this).
?perhaps put drivers on a USB harddisk (however, don't know how).

What is the best -simple- way to benefit from DriverPacks?

Kees030?
most people do not need ALL driverpacks.
I seldom include graphics C, for instance...

deleting LANG folder, is not the way to go?
NLite can remove a lot of languages and keyboards, but I still find files in that folder afterwards, so I leave it...

You CAN delete the LANG folder without any problems if you don't need support for Eastern languages. I've always done so.

Simply Integrating The SimHei font will let IE display the Chinese chars...

When you use my Vista RTM fonts addon this happens... Its a really cool side effect

My Windows 7 integration instructional videos

Please forgive my ignorance; it's the first time I'm working with the driver pack.

1. Can I extract the different driver packs into one directory "Driver Packs" (with only one D subfolder and C, M, L, S, etc. subfolders) or do I have to extract each driver pack into its own subdirectory'("DP_Chipset_wnt5_x86-32_612" with D\C\... and "DP_MassStorage_wnt5_x86-32_7011" with D\M\... in it)?

2. After having deleted the subdirs of the drivers I don't need, do I have to 7zip the driver pack dir(s) -in accordance with the answer on my first question- and then run DPs_BASE or leave them extracted?

Thanks jtdoom,

It's clear about unpacking in seperate folders. However I don't understand the INI-part. I found none in the driver packs. The only INI I could find is DPs_BASE.ini. I don't see references to folders. Could you please explain what I'm missing?

Thing is, Jaak and others including me are already used to working with the nightlies, which do feature those INIs already for quite some time that we sometimes overlook the fact that the non-testers still work with the "old" DriverPacks.

Previously, when a new DP was released, it required an update for the BASE, too.
In the future, those INIs will take care of that and also allow you to mix DP version as you please (eg. you could use an old DPMS with all-new other packs because that very combination works best for you).

As testing made a big progress recently, I think those packs aren't too far from a public release now

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To jtdoom:      you might need to adjust your tutorial   to reflect the remove of the ?:\I386\WINNTUPG   folder. It's needed for the Windows Recovery Console on a winxp sp1a with sp2 slipstreamed.   The other *UPG can be removed but for some reason the WRC needs that folder. I'd figure I'd pass that along.   That folder has been needed on my end for some reason now for a long while so I've been including it since I need WRC.

Last edited by Ton80 (2007-06-09 02:15:39)