[IMPL] Stand ALONE DRIVER CD OPTION 3 for Driver Base ?

I hope this is what you want

this has been asked before, and I wrote this about doing drivers on CD.

Suppose you have a testrig in which you regularly change devices for you have to see wether they still work.
it runs XP which you do not want to reload.
it would be nice to have a large collection of devicedrivers ready on the drive.
Well, one can do something quite interesting.

what does one need...
1; one or two little cmd files one creates for oneself
2; a source you slipped with base, using method 2 (the source will then contains the files.)
3; 7zip.. (for the doPNF.cmd method.)

and then... how it works
copy the OEM folder from the slipstreamed source to a CDRW
create a little batchfile (or create both) and copy that to that CDRW
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Dopath.cmd works very simple
It extracts the files from the slipstreamed CDRW or DVDRW into a folder in windows.
devpath then tells windows the files are there, ready to be searched when hardware is added.
You have to hit "use anyway" when you run hardware wizard and it turns out the driver is not WHQL signed.

doPATH.CMD

SET TAGFILE=\OEM
FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y) DO IF EXIST "%%i:%TAGFILE%" SET CDDRIVE=%%i:
%CDDRIVE%\OEM\BIN\7z.exe x -y -aoa %CDDRIVE%\OEM\DP*.7z -o"%SystemRoot%\DriverPacks"
%CDDRIVE%\OEM\BIN\DevPath.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks
exit

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This other method takes longer to apply because makePNF installs the drivers into the windows INF section.
To make that possible, you have to extract a few files with 7zip
(makePNF.exe and DSPdsblr.exe are packed in DPsFnshr.7z)
Unpack the content to a temp folder, then copy to root of the CDR or DVDRW you'll burn.

doPNF.CMD

SET TAGFILE=\DSPdsblr.exe
FOR %%i IN (C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y) DO IF EXIST "%%i:%TAGFILE%" SET CDDRIVE=%%i:
 
%CDDRIVE%\OEM\BIN\7z.exe x -y -aoa %CDDRIVE%\OEM\DP*.7z -o"%SystemRoot%\DriverPacks"
start %CDDRIVE%\DSPdsblr.exe
%CDDRIVE%\makePNF.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks
taskkill /f /im DSPdsblr.exe
 
%CDDRIVE%\OEM\BIN\DevPath.exe %SystemRoot%\DriverPacks
exit

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note, if you simply un7zip all the driverpacks and third party packs, you need a DVD.
it would be searchable...

when they are packed, you can do above on a CD

I also would like to see a feature like 'make CD/DVD drivers', in a way that makes the search process of the Windows wizard fast, because making a disc of only decompressed driverpacks takes too much time for the OS to find the correct driver.

Can we make this a request?

Last edited by aaaa (2007-08-26 10:22:05)

Also, it seems to have been included in the base system image that I used; Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 (MSDN), because it did show up in the DISM driver listing. Otherwise, it was installed through Windows Update (which I kept an eye on the list, so I don't think so...).