HFSLIP Preparation Tool (for HFSLIP 70211a or higher)

[Tomcat76]

Download HFSLIP-prep.zip

This tool slipstreams a Service Pack if required and merges DRIVER.CAB with SP#.CAB.

Advantage: if HFSLIP doesn't encounter any updated driver binaries and you selected merging option A, B or C, DRIVER.CAB will no longer have to be merged with SP#.CAB because the latter doesn't exist.

Supported Service Packs: any that's supported by HFSLIP except USP5. This will be supported in a later release.

Your CD source goes in a folder called SOURCE and the Service Pack installer (network installer) goes in HF. For safety, also copy over the files that exist in the root of your CD.

- HF

- SOURCE

- HFSLIP_prep.cmd

If you already have an existing HFSLIP folder structure, just copy this tool into the same folder.

NOTE

Some people seem to have problems slipstreaming updated driver binaries coming from hotfixes into the source that's created with this tool. If you're getting several occurances of "0 files copied" while the new driver binaries are processed by HFSLIP (a bit after DRIVER.CAB is expanded, when the message "Adding updated driver files from hotfixes" appears), then you should revert to your previous source and don't use this tool again. I can't duplicate this problem so it's unlikely it will be fixed any time soon.

Edited February 15, 2007 by Tomcat76

[S3pHiroTh]

Hi Tomcat, have you forgot to upload the file?

[Kiki Burgh]

yup ... redirects to this site: http://www.zita.be/users_error/ & shows Page not found - HTTP 404

[Super-Magician]

The file is there. Tomcat just provided the wrong link.

http://users.telenet.be/tc76/hfslip/test/HFSLIP_prep.zip

[Tomcat76]

Thanks. Link corrected.

And please only use it with HFSLIP 70211a or higher...

[Kiki Burgh]

Download HFSLIP-prep.zip

This tool slipstreams a Service Pack if required and merges DRIVER.CAB with SP#.CAB.

Your CD source goes in a folder called SOURCE and the Service Pack installer (network installer) goes in HF. For safety, also copy over the files that exist in the root of your CD.

hi TC! 1 very elementary Q ... for use only with SOURCE that doesn't have SP# slipstreamed, right? thanks!

[Tomcat76]

The script is intelligent enough to see if a service pack needs to be slipstreamed or not.

[Kiki Burgh]

couldn't this be an added option here?

ECHO ==================TommyP's 2K3/XP/W2K/IE HOTFIX SLIPSTREAMER==================
echo.
ECHO What driver compression level do you want?  
ECHO.  
ECHO A.  Merge into single DRIVER.CAB, highest compression:
echo	 * Slow compress time, fast txtmode copy, slow extract
echo.
echo B.  Merge into single DRIVER.CAB, medium compression:
echo	 * Moderate compress time, moderate txtmode copy, moderate extract
echo.
echo C.  Merge into single DRIVER.CAB, low compression:
echo	 * Fast compress time, slow txtmode copy, fast extract
echo.
ECHO D.  No merge, creates SPX.CAB, highest compression:
echo	 * Slow compress time, fast txtmode copy, slow extract
echo.
echo E.  No merge, creates SPX.CAB, medium compression:
echo	 * Moderate compress time, moderate txtmode copy, moderate extract
echo.
echo F.  No merge, creates SPX.CAB, low compression:
echo	 * Fast compress time, slow txtmode copy, fast extract
echo.
ECHO Enter A, B, C, D, E or F for your desired driver compression.  Default is A