Compressing Drivers dll to dl_ How?

[CrashUK]

Hello

I need some hello.. how can I compress a load of dll and sys and so on..

I what to pack my drivers???

going to have drivers in the $OEM$/$1/drivers/

my unstanding is windows system can read compressed files.. if they named .dl_

[WhtKnight]

there's a tool on your xp install called makecab.exe you can use that if you want to create cabs in that fashion

just go to a command line and try makecab and you'll see it

WhtKnight

[SiMoNsAyS]

more info here

[CrashUK]

there's a tool on your xp install called makecab.exe you can use that if you want to create cabs in that fashion

just go to a command line and try makecab and you'll see it

WhtKnight

I know how to do that but this they any way to do like 300 files.?? I what to compress drivers..

[SiMoNsAyS]

and why didn't you look up your post, where topics are pinned there is 1 that says "Guide For Compressed Drivers Unattended Install"

i'm sure it'll be easier to use that method than compress 300 files to cabs

[CrashUK]

that be cool if it works.. that 7zip does better compress then winrar?

[SiMoNsAyS]

that be cool if it works.. that 7zip does better compress then winrar?

4 sure

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

that be cool if it works.. that 7zip does better compress then winrar?

4 sure

Yes indeed

better than anything else (maybe except for some extreme compressing, used by companies...(consumes too much CPU power anyway))

[Bilou_Gateux]

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SET SOURCE= <write the name of the source folder here>
SET TARGET= <write the name of the target folder here>
IF EXIST %SOURCE%\*.* FOR /F %%J IN ('DIR /A-D /OGN /B %SOURCE%\*.*') DO MAKECAB /D CompressionMemory=21 /D CompressionType=LZX /L %TARGET% %SOURCE%\%%J

Take care that all files *.* in the source folder (including the .inf and .cat files) are compressed to target folder.

To use the content of target folder for unattended install, .inf and .cat files MUST be uncompressed.

use expand to uncompress a file

EXPAND Source Destination

and delete compressed version driver.in_ and driver.ca_

[CrashUK]

it did work.. 7zip is nice