Windows 7 Deployment FOG- SAD2 Driver tool
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I have been using Microsoft’s dpinst program, and it seems to work (at least 90% of the time), but I have had one severe program with it: it seems to go through and install every single version of drivers.
We are mostly a Dell shop, but we have many models of Dell, and even within the models, we have some with differing hardware. I get my drivers from Dell’s Web site in EXE format. I then change the extension to ZIP and extract everything from the file.
The problem is that the drivers often contain multiple versions of a driver. For example, let’s say for a video driver, it contains Version 1.0, Version 2.0, Version 3.0, and Version 4.0. Well, apparently dpinst does not check only for the latest version. It goes through and first installs Version 1.0. Then, it checks and finds Version 2.0, so it then installs that because it’s newer. Of course, it then finds Version 3.0 and installs that. The process continues until it installs the last version.
This is a problem for two main reasons: (1) because some drivers (especially from Intel, AMD, and nVidia) contain a [B]lot[/B] of versions it can take a while to get drivers installed and (2) it fills up the “Programs and Features” list with a [B]ton[/B] of entries, one for each driver version installed.
Is there any way around this?
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Hi Andy/all- thanks so much for putting together the walkthru here[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]
I followed it to a T- however, Im having issues. I cant fig out how to search this specific thread so I hope my query/issue hasnt been stated previously.
Ive made it thru Step 9, but, upon reboot to confirm that the machine boots properly, I get the following errors:
- “The computer restarted unexpectedly or encountered an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. To install Windows, click OK to restart the computer, and then restart the installation.”
- “Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]. The settings specified in the answer file cannot be applied. The error was detected while processing settings for component [Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup).”
I cant boot into Safe Mode. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
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Sounds like the unattend had a misconfiguration somewhere
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Hello Andy and all the helpful folks in the forums,
This tutorial is great and has me all set up with a generic image. The only issue I am running into right now is that the new Dell machines we are getting in at work don’t have all of their drives in the latest Driver packs.
I looked through their forums and found some tutorials on how to add your own DriverPacks, but they are about 6 years old and I haven’t gotten the steps to work yet, though still working on it. I have found How to add drivers to the existing Driver packs, but thsi means I will have to add the drivers everytime a new DriverPack comes out.
Anyone have any idea how to add my own driver pack so I can put all the missing drivers in it and not have to mess with the driverpacks that can be obtained from the DriverPack site?
If I find the solution myself I will post here.
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is the most up to date form of Driverpack apparatuses perfect with the DP introduce device of this instructional exercise? or on the other hand do I require alter the new DP_Install_Tool
on the off chance that I have to alter it, can somebody disclose what I have to alter/evacuate
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I have decided to go for FOG, and are trying to set up an image with Windows 7. We have several models im going to deploy to, but i would like to have the drivers be installed automatically when i deploy the image to the computers.
Do you have any easy and elegant solutons on how to do this? I have searched around the net for some time now, but cant find a good guide that is updated.
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@ramanvid I have a tutorial on this I created a few years ago. Its still functional in 2022. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11126/using-fog-postinstall-scripts-for-windows-driver-injection-2017-ed
For windows 7, or windows 10 it works, the focus of the article is using dell supplied driver packs (which are now not .cab files but now are .exe files. You can still use 7-zip to extract the drivers from the files). For Windows 7 you can use the registry key to point to the downloaded drivers, in Win10 you will need to use the pnputil command to import the drives.
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@george1421 Thanks for the tutorial, i’ll try it.. .
