Driver Compressor

**Crash&Burn** · October 13, 2005

Anyone know the difference between cabarc.exe (61k) and makecab.exe (77k) ?

Their internal help suggests cabarc is more robust, yet smaller?

Both have the same version# 5.1.2600.1106 from ieak6.exe (6.0.2800.1106)

Am pretty sure Win2K doesn't have makecab.

**Oleg_II** · October 15, 2005

hp38guser

Good work, thanx!

Crash&Burn

I have makecab.exe on my Windows 2000 Professional B)

**Bâshrat the Sneaky** · October 16, 2005

Anyone know the difference between cabarc.exe (61k) and makecab.exe (77k) ?
Their internal help suggests cabarc is more robust, yet smaller?
Both have the same version# 5.1.2600.1106 from ieak6.exe (6.0.2800.1106)
Am pretty sure Win2K doesn't have makecab.

PM RyanVM about that. I once knew it, but I'm 300% sure he DOES know.

**Acheron** · October 25, 2005

I uploaded a new build. Please test to see if it works on all driver infs. New is the added long file name support and the subdir-reference support (ATI Drivers for example).

Last update 25 october 2005 [bETA]:

-Added Long File Name support

-Added Subdir-reference support

-Improved dependant files check (minor)

-Fixed truncated extension on decompress (minor)

-End of line detection added to tagscanner (minor)

For the fast please download it again. I found some glitches

Here is an example of new code added to detect Subdirs in the SourceDisksNames section:

:FindSourceDir
SET id.nr=%id.nr: =%
SET id.path=%id.path:,=:#%
SET id.path=%id.path:*:=%
FOR /F "tokens=3 delims=:" %%i IN ('ECHO "%id.path:~1,-1%"') DO (
	SET id.path=%%i
)
SET id.path=%id.path:#=%
SET id.path=%id.path:"=%
IF DEFINED id.path (
	IF /I EXIST "%id.path%" (
		SET id.dir.%id.nr%=%id.path%
	) ELSE (
		SET id.dir.%id.nr%=.
	)
) ELSE (
	SET id.dir.%id.nr%=.
)
GOTO :EOF

Edited October 26, 2005 by hp38guser

**jrxnelson** · October 27, 2005

Not sure if I understand how DriverCompressor works or not ...

I run the compress.cmd in the driver directory .. it creates new subdirectories .. and copies files there.

But does it create a CAB file? or do I have to do that on my own??

And what do I do with the CAB file? where do i put it on the unattended CD??

Sorry for not getting the full gist of this...

**Oleg_II** · October 27, 2005

hp38guser

Good work! Unfortunatelly I can't try it right now because I've already CABed all my drivers with your previous version but I'll try next week when we get a new computer (with some new drivers I suppose

jrxnelson

When you run this file in a folder with a driver files it will leave only needed files, CABs them like FILE.SY_ and deletes the other files from this folder. (I suppose, new version will make sub-folders into CABs?)

Then you can use compressed files like you did with uncompressed but now your drivers will take less place on your installation CD or on your hard drive.

Edited October 27, 2005 by Oleg_II

**Acheron** · October 27, 2005

Last update for now. Sorry for the inconvience, but testing is a bit hard with all kinds of drivers.

@Oleg_II:

All output is copied to a new subdirectory called %Class%\%Drivername% to avoid overwriting existing files.

**Kelsenellenelvian** · November 13, 2005

God I love this tool thanks.

**cyberloner** · November 13, 2005

i use the tool before... last time ... but having problem... with some driver...

but by reading all the post here... i might get a try for it since my drivers is getting bigger now =)

thanks for keep it up hp38guser

Opps.. i try to compress realtek drivers A3.78 and run in WDM folders....

i get a 403MB MEDIA folder....

Edited November 13, 2005 by cyberloner

**Lemonzest** · November 14, 2005

no idea if other people have this problem but it does not work with nvidia ethernet drivers, it just makes the folder containing the inf files and nothing more

here's a error report

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
				Driver Compressor Tool

				 ®2005 Klaas Nekeman
		 ____________________________________
		 msfn.org - for your unattended needs
		++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
		_______________________________

		Setupfile: nvenetfd.inf
		Setupdir: \Net\nvenetfd
		_______________________________

		File:   nvenetfd.inf
		File:   NVENETFD.CAT
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvefd2k.sys
		File:   nvefd2k.sys
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\Net\nvenetfd\nvefd2k.sys
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvefdxp.sys
		File:   nvefdxp.sys
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\Net\nvenetfd\nvefdxp.sys
FINDSTR: Cannot open \fdco1.dll
		File:   fdco1.dll
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\Net\nvenetfd\fdco1.dll

		Setupfile: nvnetbus.inf
		Setupdir: \%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus
		_______________________________

		File:   nvnetbus.inf
		File:   nvnetbus.cat
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvnetbus.sys
		File:   nvnetbus.sys
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus\nvnetbus.sys
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvnrm.sys
		File:   nvnrm.sys
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus\nvnrm.sys
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvsnpu.sys
		File:   nvsnpu.sys
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus\nvsnpu.sys
FINDSTR: Cannot open \bdco1.dll
		File:   bdco1.dll
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus\bdco1.dll
FINDSTR: Cannot open \nvconrm.dll
		File:   nvconrm.dll
Could Not Find C:\Documents and Settings\Lemonzest\Desktop\nForce_430_410_8.22_w
inxp2k_international\Ethernet\%Vendor_ClassName%\nvnetbus\nvconrm.dll

		Done.

		Please visit msfn.org for further information and updates:

		http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35869

Press any key to continue . . .

thats just from extracting the driver installer with winrar and running the batch file from the ethernet folder, works fine with the other folder in the nForce drivers. ethernet problem with all nForce drivers versions 5.10/11 6.39/53/66/67/70 and 8.22

Thankyou.

Lemonzest

edit: does not work with creative drivers either.

Edited November 14, 2005 by Lemonzest

**Acheron** · November 14, 2005

Lemonzest, I'll have not yet implement STRING variables. It's on schedule for next update

**jekeywang** · November 16, 2005

Driver Compressor
Compress drivers to save space on removable media
Program is open source, so open for improvement. Suggestions are welcome.
Info:
Compressed drivers can get installed as any normal driver:
OemPnPDriversPath
nLite
manual installation
WHQL kept
Benefits:
Smaller files on installation media
Seperate drivers from the extra's.
Usage:
Copy compress.cmd to the driver dir and execute it.
The detected driver files are created in new subdirectories, so make sure you have write-access.
When you receive errors running the batch or the result is not as expected please tell me on which driver this behaviour occured and if possible provide me a downloadlink to the driver package
Limitations
- Driver Compressor only processes inf's in the directory it's working directory.
Download :
drv_comp.cmd
Last update 27 october 2005:
-Fixed truncated extension on decompress (minor)
25 october 2005:
- Added Long File Name support
- Added Subdir-reference support
- Improved dependant files check (minor)
- End of line detection added to tagscanner (minor)
28 august 2005:
- Minor GUI fixes
- Fixed invalid call causing strange behaviour in specific situations (minor)
03 may 2005:
- Changed detection of Driver class
- Added Tab as delimiter in inf parser
13 march 2005:
- Changed handling of inf's containing no driver signature
- Windows NT detection added (batch won't run on 9x systems)
- Fixed issue about driver files got placed into subfoldertree
- Minor GUI changes
8 march 2005:
- Fixed bug when driver-inf doesn't contain any files to install (Intel Inf drivers)
- Added PAUSE at program exit.

there is some problem when I use the Driver Compressor Tool 7.02 to compresse the Intel Corporation graphics adapter drivers.the program print this infomation :"can't open the *.lrc,don't find *.lrc files" but these files is good.

**Kelsenellenelvian** · November 17, 2005

I can Compile this for you if you want.

**Acheron** · November 17, 2005

I don't want to have this compiled yet. You may compile it for yourself if you want

Edited November 17, 2005 by hp38guser

**zerospeed** · November 30, 2005

Hello, Using 10/27/05 version it cannot compress Intel 8255x-based PCI Ethernet Adapters

(e100b325 Version 8.0.19)

I attached to this message the inf file used, check that the SourceDiskFiles required to work recides in the same folder:

[SourceDisksFiles]
e100b325.din = 1,,
e100bnt5.din = 1,,
e100b325.sys = 1,,
e100bnt5.sys = 1,,
Prounstl.exe = 1,,
IntelNic.dll = 1,,
e100bmsg.dll = 1,,

So I have included them in the same folder, plus the .cat file.

The error driver compressor drop me is this:

Setupfile: e100b325.inf
		Setupdir: \Net\e100b325
		_______________________________

		File:   e100b325.inf
		File:   e100b325.cat
FINDSTR: Cannot open \e100b325.din
		File:   e100b325.din
Could Not Find D:\Users\zerospeed\Desktop\e100b325\Net\e100b325\e100b325.din

The same error for each one of the SourceDiskFiles section...

Maybe :FindSourceDir is reporting "root" of the drive, instead of the current folder from which I executed drv_comp?

e100b325.zip

Edited November 30, 2005 by zerospeed

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