HELP! - How Do I Extract Chipset INF Files For Virgin W2K Install

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Steve Sr.

I will soon be attempting to load W2K on a P4C800E. The system is set
up with 2 SATA hard drives which W2K knows nothing about!

The Intel INF utility is about 2.5Mb which won't fit on a floppy. Even
if it did W2K wouldn't run it during installation. I think it is
looking for raw INF files.

I attempted to run the infinst_autol.exe utility on another PC and
extract the files with the -A command line option but found no INF
files after Installshield finished.

Has anybody figured out how to do this yet?

Thanks,

Steve
 
"DanO" said:
You make a driver disk floppy, press F6 when prompted during the Windows
Install, and then feed Windows the floppy you made earlier. That's all
there is to it. You add the Intel Chipset Inf Drivers after the Windows
installation.

You may want to read
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49225

as well as http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34558
Click to expand...

That 34558 thread is a good one.

With regard to your question about the INFINST.exe, you could try
using "-A -A" as the arguments to the installer. If you further
add -Ppath, where path is some directory on your disk, you can
actually specify where the INF files are dumped. This is all
explained in the README file. The installer will look like it
is running, but the end result is supposed to just be a directory
full of files. Since with the 34558 thread and recipe, you won't
need to think about this, I only mention this if you want to hack
or inspect the individual .inf files.

ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/5811/eng/readme.txt

Paul
 
That 34558 thread is a good one.

With regard to your question about the INFINST.exe, you could try
using "-A -A" as the arguments to the installer. If you further
add -Ppath, where path is some directory on your disk, you can
actually specify where the INF files are dumped. This is all
explained in the README file. The installer will look like it
is running, but the end result is supposed to just be a directory
full of files. Since with the 34558 thread and recipe, you won't
need to think about this, I only mention this if you want to hack
or inspect the individual .inf files.

ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/5811/eng/readme.txt

Paul
Click to expand...

I finally figured this out. The install shield version seems to be
pretty buggy. I found the readme but the command line options didn't
work with the INFINST_AUTOL.EXE.

The AUTOL.EXE wrapper program also seems to look for a MB with a valid
chipset. The one that I was extracting it on didn't have one so it
refused to install the drivers

So I finally just extracted this EXE with Winzip to a scratch
directory on the HD. One of the files that you get in the root of this
extraction is SETUP.EXE. SETUP.EXE did take the -? command line
option.

So next I tried the -A and the -P options and it said that I had -1
megabytes of HD space left and refused to run.

Next I tried just the -A option and it finally installed to the
default directory. After that it was easy to find the half a dozen or
less files for Win 2K and the ICH5R controller.

What a pain for just 20K of files!

Steve
 
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