What is the best practice of packaging a driver? I have been assigned to package some HP Printers and Scannars in one big folder.
Every Printer or scannar folder has other files in it (mst, exe, ini, cab...). How do I combine all of these and form a package out of it??
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Posted by:
pjgeutjens
11 years ago
a few questions:
1) What OS(es) are you targeting?
2) Are the drivers signed?
3) What authoring tool do you have available?
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my os is win7, I believe the drivers are signed and I am using Adminstudion 11.5. IS there a way to use DPINST? - kevinkhad 11 years ago
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I would NOT use dpinst directly but use the DifxApp merge module by following the procedure Piyush refers to in his answer.
Be aware though that when using DifxApp there can only be one driver per folder in the MSI, otherwise you'll run into trouble. - pjgeutjens 11 years ago -
If the drivers turn out to be unsigned, don't even start packaging them. Get them signed first, either by contacting the vendor for updated versions, or by signing them yourself - pjgeutjens 11 years ago
Posted by:
piyushnasa
11 years ago
It is very easy to create Device Driver Packages with Admin Studio Installshield.
Follow my post here for step by step method:
http://msiworld.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/creating-device-driver-based-package-in.html
Posted by:
hrs2cool
11 years ago