a questions regarding driver structure in xp cd?

[mukeshnuna]

hi frnds...

As u know this page about

drivers shows us how to install drivers during setup....! or how ur structue shud look like..!

i want to know....if we compress all the files....(like monitor drivers) in one cab file and then put it into 002_monitor folder....wud it still work??

if it does..then great....!

and if it doesnt ...then there must be some way to make it work..!

can ya plzz explain me..!

thnks..!

[scp]

i think it doesn't really work. The .inf files should be always uncompressed. If you want to compress the other files (.dll, .sys etc.) you must modify the [sourceDisksNames] section in the .inf files.

Or you can compress each file seperatly without any other modification (like the files with _ in I386 folder).

[jdeboeck]

do this

for /f %i in ('dir /b') do makecab %i

delete the original files EXCEPT the .INF you need. Delete the compressed .IN_ as it will be useless. You should end up with the same number of files, but requiring lot less space. Nothing else is required.