RE: Adding drivers to driver.cab part 2
Why not just put the needed information in the drvindex.inf file in your own section at the head of the file pointing to the location where the file is located. I think that might be easier. Are you sure you can add files to a cab file without altering the digital signature? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adding drivers to driver.cab part 2 Since I posted the first message, I discovered that the drivers are listed in a file called drvindex.inf which is in the inf folder. From looking at this file, it seems that Windows looks at this inf file first to see if the named driver is available, and which cab files to look in. So on my system which had sp1 applied and then later had sp2 applied, I have both Sp1.cab and sp2.cab. The drvindex.inf specifies sp2.cab and driver.cab. So I think I could delete sp1.cab.I havent found any reference to checksums anywhere so on Monday I'm going to try placing my ibm drivers in driver.cab and adding the names to drvindex.inf. That way if newer versions of those files show up in sp3.cab, Windows will get those newer ones instead of the ones that are in driver.cab. I'll post the results to the list on Monday, assuming I dont have a crisis to deal with. Thanks - DR http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
RE: Adding drivers to driver.cab part 2
I have been reading up on that today and I think you are right - it will be easier to reference a separate cab file.The drvindex.inf file gets overwritten by new service packs so I'll have to leave ample documentation on what I did here. This will be a good way to include newer printer drivers etc also. Greg Page GPage@riptecTo: NT System Admin Issues [EMAIL PROTECTED] h.com cc: Subject: RE: Adding drivers to driver.cab part 2 09/08/2001 01:44 PM Please respond to NT System Admin Issues Why not just put the needed information in the drvindex.inf file in your own section at the head of the file pointing to the location where the file is located. I think that might be easier. Are you sure you can add files to a cab file without altering the digital signature? Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Adding drivers to driver.cab part 2 Since I posted the first message, I discovered that the drivers are listed in a file called drvindex.inf which is in the inf folder. From looking at this file, it seems that Windows looks at this inf file first to see if the named driver is available, and which cab files to look in. So on my system which had sp1 applied and then later had sp2 applied, I have both Sp1.cab and sp2.cab. The drvindex.inf specifies sp2.cab and driver.cab. So I think I could delete sp1.cab.I havent found any reference to checksums anywhere so on Monday I'm going to try placing my ibm drivers in driver.cab and adding the names to drvindex.inf. That way if newer versions of those files show up in sp3.cab, Windows will get those newer ones instead of the ones that are in driver.cab. I'll post the results to the list on Monday, assuming I dont have a crisis to deal with. Thanks - DR http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ntsysadmin_list_charter.htm
