Custom Component - Intel Pro 100/1000 & video driver.

[Jason]

On my PC after I let FBA run, I manually install the Driver for my NIC,
which are the INTEL pro100 and pro 1000.

If I create a customer component, is that the same as running the setup.exe?
I assume it will put all files in the appropriate places and I'd still have
the same functionality?

For instance, if I created a component for my video driver, I assume I would
still get the same applet in the tray that I do from running setup.exe?

 

[Adora Belle Dearheart]

On my PC after I let FBA run, I manually install the Driver for my NIC,
which are the INTEL pro100 and pro 1000.

If I create a customer component, is that the same as running the setup.exe?
I assume it will put all files in the appropriate places and I'd still have
the same functionality?

For instance, if I created a component for my video driver, I assume I would
still get the same applet in the tray that I do from running setup.exe?

That would depend on you. You can put in just the files necessary for
basic functionality or you can go into more detail and add the
associated applications as well.

 

[Jason]

I would probably include everything.

Is there something special that I need to do, to let XPe know that I want
the app to be installed as well? or will the creation of the component take
care of that? If I copy all the files to the repository will they get
installed

 

[Adora Belle Dearheart]

I would probably include everything.

Is there something special that I need to do, to let XPe know that I want
the app to be installed as well? or will the creation of the component take
care of that? If I copy all the files to the repository will they get
installed

That would depend on you. You can put in just the files necessary for
basic functionality or you can go into more detail and add the associated
applications as well.

...no. There's howtos about.

 

[Jason]

"There's howtos about"

Can you point me in the right direction

Thanks

 

[Adora Belle Dearheart]

"There's howtos about"

Can you point me in the right direction

I would imagine that it's covered in Liming's book and probably also in
Cseri's. I don't know offhand of anything that covers it online, though
there probably is something around.
Long story short, you use a tool such as inctrl5 to track the file and
registry changes the installer makes, bung all the files into a flat
repository (no subdirectories) and add them in component designer,
remembering to set this folder up as a new repository and point the
component at it. Then you add the important registry changes, and and
required resources, such as service information and dll registration,
and then you've got a component to import.
Doing a perl install took me something like 8 hours.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

If you want to create a component for the Ethernet card, just import the INF
file into Component Designer.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental
Toolkit

 

[Adora Belle Dearheart]

If you want to create a component for the Ethernet card, just import the INF
file into Component Designer.

But that won't deal with additional control applications, which IIRC was
what the original question was about.

 

[Sean Liming \(eMVP\)]

Correct. That is part of the whole process.

-Sean