Having Windows Keep The Drivers

[X-Savior]

Sorry, I jsut don't like "Auto" on something I can't control. I prefer to add the drivers my self so I have 100% Control over what is going into MY install.

Just don't want my of my work being changed.

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Well, in fact you can run OemPnPDriversPath.cmd standalone, and you can change the path to your liking

[SilverHaze420]

I am asking anyone who reads this...

If you can make a program to scan a directory, and list all the file names it finds in a .TXT file. That way we can then copy and paste out of it and into our DRVINDEX.INF it will make maintaining the CAB a very simple matter. 

dir /b > filename.txt

simple enough if this is what you are talking about

[X-Savior]

Thank You VERY MUCH Silver!

You caught me by surprise... I am quite familiar with the prompt but you blindsided me with that one.

Problem Solved! That saves us a HUGE amount of time.

Thank you for contributing!

[X-Savior]

STrange, it double posted on me.

[SilverHaze420]

Glad to give back to the community

[erik_demon]

Hey

I did some testing again today, and all worked great

So I wrote a manual for this method

Here it is

EDIT:

Important!!

If your driverpack has duplicated files (double filenames) Don't use this method!!

Having_windows_preserve_the_drivers_beta_V1.zip

Edited April 27, 2005 by erik_demon

[X-Savior]

Right On!

I will read it tonight! I am now experimenting with XPlode to create a full menu system to let you choose what software to install during the Install Process. It is GREAT!

[X-Savior]

I don't know what everyone else thinks but This Thread should be moved to "Sticky"

Very useful information for anyone who is looking to integrate drivers on a permenant basis.

What do the Other 2400 People to have read this Thread Think? B)

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

It's not 2400 people... it's 2400 views... of which easily 75 from me

But you're definetely right

Stickied!

[erik_demon]

Yeah! I agree with X-Savior.

I think that alot of people here are very intersted in this method.

I always hate it to install new devices because then I would have to get the driver CD (and I am so ***** lazy ) And i think that this is the same for a lot of people.

Besides, we need testers!!

Bashrat, can you make this a sticky, and can you move this topic to "Device Drivers" I think this huge topic is in the wrong place

Now about the manual that I released, I will release an updated version tonight with some more detailes and with a lot less typos

[Beagz]

I am asking anyone who reads this...

If you can make a program to scan a directory, and list all the file names it finds in a .TXT file. That way we can then copy and paste out of it and into our DRVINDEX.INF it will make maintaining the CAB a very simple matter. 

dir /b > filename.txt

simple enough if this is what you are talking about

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

don't know if this helps but

dir /s /b > filename.txt

will not only list files in primary but also all subdirs into a txt file.

[erik_demon]

@Beagz

Thanks, you are completely right. Without /S it doesn't work with subdirs.

Now we face another problem.

We only need the filenames without the subdir (we don't want subdirs in Drvindex.inf, because the hardware wizard will scan the entire .CAB file (subdirs included)

Does anyone have an idea how to do this?

[Beagz]

ok here's what I got.

first do a listing of all directories of DP and save to dirs.txt

dir /s /a:d /b >dirs.txt

next parse the dirs.txt file and list all files in each dir

for /f %a in (dirs.txt) do dir /a:-d /b >test.txt %a

what I don't know how to do is to append the test.txt instead of rewriting it.

[Nazgul]

I think this should work:

@ECHO OFF
set output=%CD%\result.txt

if exist "%output%" del /q "%output%"
call :traverse "%cd%"
goto EOF

:traverse
 pushd %~f1
 for %%I in (*) do (
  if not exist "%output%" echo %%I >> "%output%"
  findstr /L /I "%%I" "%output%" > NUL
  if errorlevel 1 echo %%I >> "%output%"
 )
 for /d %%I in (*) do (
   call :traverse "%%I"
 )
 popd
goto EOF
:EOF

Basically it's a modified OemPnPDriversPath.cmd from BTS' SriverPacks. What it does, is scan the current directory and subdirectories and list all files, without directory names, it finds in result.txt in the current directory.

It's even smart enough to filter duplicate entries.

@Beagz: To append to a file instead of overwriting it use >> filename.txt instead of > filename.txt