jai123
1st June 2011 22:26 UTC

Installer Distribution.
Hi,

I am not sure if this question can be covered in this forum. So, in case it does not, I would greatly appreciate if you could point me towards the right one.

I created an installer that executes a couple of INF files and install a kernel driver; the installer works fine.

Most customers insert their pci card and boot up their computers for the first time; this initializes the Hardware Found Wizard, which confuses them.

The customer usually use the wizard to point to our installation cd, which does not find any INF file with the ID and fails; when the wizard fails they think that there was an error with the driver installer, and never try the full installer. (of course they call us)

I was just wondering if the installer can be called from the Hardware Found Wizard. maybe through calling an INF file? Any other suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks,

MSG
2nd June 2011 06:19 UTC

No, it's not possible to launch the installer from the new hardware wizard. The solution is simple, though: Don't use the File command to compile the files into the installer exe, but use the CopyFiles command to copy plain, normal files from the CD. You can use the $EXEDIR variable to point to the CD. This way the files are available for the hardware wizard to find.

jai123
3rd June 2011 14:36 UTC

Thanks for the reply.

The drivers that I am installing have 2 PNP INF files and a non-PNP component, is it possible to install all these 3 components from the Hardware Found Wizard?

So far I have been only able to install one of the INF files

MSG
3rd June 2011 15:05 UTC

I've no idea how inf files work, but I don't think that's really an NSIS related question. You're probably better off asking someplace else. Maybe MSDN forums?

jai123
3rd June 2011 17:33 UTC

Agreed, thanks.