nLite not remembering if driver packs had already been added...

[Tsais]

I made a working SP3 CD including IE7, MP11, hotfixes etc.

After install, I found windows update wanted to give me 2 more hotfixes, and I needed to change some user and computer name info.

So, I ran nLite again on the same file set, to add these details.

nLite smartly knew, that it had already added one of the hotfixes and the themes, and gave a message that it was skipping them.

but on the drivers, it failed to notice and added the full 60MB set of drivers again, with a new set of folders:

the original set of drivers was in folders from NLDRV\001 to 012

then added duplicates of everything in folders NLDRV\013 to 024

I imagine it won't be enough if I just delete the extra folders? There must be some references to these, that must also be purged?

Edited May 3, 2008 by Tsais

[Tsais]

found

the directory list in TXTsetup.sif:

2009 = NLDRV\013

2010 = NLDRV\014

2011 = NLDRV\015

2012 = NLDRV\016

2013 = NLDRV\017

2014 = NLDRV\018

2015 = NLDRV\019

2016 = NLDRV\020

2017 = NLDRV\021

2018 = NLDRV\022

2019 = NLDRV\023

2020 = NLDRV\024

those are all the duplicates.

Are there any other references I need to remove, to avoid having windows setup looking for non-existent duplicates of drivers?

[Tsais]

If I just want to make a small change to an nLite install in the future, what's the proper way to deal with integrated driver packs:

delete the NLDVR folders, replace the TXTsetup.sif file with one from before drivers were integrated and let nLite do them again?

Or can you delete the drivers out of the nLite LASTSESSION.INI, and nLite will leave the already integrated drivers alone?

I just don't want to start from scratch for every piddling change or hotfix I want to add later on.

Edited May 3, 2008 by Tsais

[exorr]

Excellent Question. Hope someone knows the answer, I've add this issue too.

If I just remove the drivers from the list is that suffecient?