edmoncu Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 i realized, it worked.but it did not decompressed at the HDD\Drivers folder as i expected, rather, it decompressed the files at the HDD\windows folder. i suppose, i should apply some advanced SFX rules with the drivers.exe file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 i realized, it worked.but it did not decompressed at the HDD\Drivers folder as i expected, rather, it decompressed the files at the HDD\windows folder. i suppose, i should apply some advanced SFX rules with the drivers.exe file.You need to specify the directory to extract to in the SFX settings. Look at the bottom of the third page of the pinned "Solved..." thread by Alanoll in the Drivers forum. I posted all the info for how to create the SFX archive which works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmoncu Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 k, done it. thanks for the info hmm, with the thread you gave me, it made me more curious to try that approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 Haha. I recently converted my batch files over to run the stuff directly from the CD. Working like a charm so far and it certainly makes textmode setup go faster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 oh yeah.....people and there old ways of copying stuff from the CD.....I think i ahve ONE file that's $OEM$ folders that gets copied. The rest are either programs to be isntalled, or were one or two files that I just added to txtsetup.sif and had XP copy them over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 I must admit, I wasn't too keen on having drivers extracted using DetachedProgram but now that I have compressed the drivers folder and seen just how much smaller it is! wow! i originally wanted to run the WPI program as DetachedProgram but now that I have given up on that idea, I compressed my drivers to SFX archive my Drivers folder used to be 163MBnow it is only 37.2MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 ok... so runningDetachedProgram="%systemdrive%\Install\Drivers.exe"will work OK, assuming the Drivers.exe is copied from the $OEM$ directory...what if I want to run it off the CD?will DetachedProgram="Drivers.exe"look in the $OEM$ base folder? (like cmdlines.txt) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I haven't figured out how to run Drivers.exe from the CD yet, though I think Alanoll's method might be needed. For now, I just have it in the $OEM$\$1 folder to run from the hard drive called as ".\Drivers.exe". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[BM]Crusher Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 hrmm... now you got me thinking... why not just run a CMD file as DetachedProgram? That would work.. why didn't i think of that before (I just finished burning a new copy of my CD that has compressed Drivers.exe but it gets copied during the $OEM$ copy)DetachedProgram=%systemdrive%\install\driver.cmddriver.cmd =@echo offfor %%i in (C: D: E: F: G:) do if exist %%i\cd.set start %%i\Stuff\Drivers.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_gie Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I think I've heard that the t-39 time is too soon to run batch script!!! This time seams really limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanVM Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 I think I've heard that the t-39 time is too soon to run batch script!!! This time seams really limited.I think you're right. And I also think we'll find out if that's truly the case very soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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