
Driver Packs for Windows 98se
by soporific

Adding your own drivers to the CD ...

If you wish to include the drivers for the system you are going to be installing this on, unless you can adapt the INF file yourself (necessary) then unpack the driver installation file (if not already done) and copy the files into the \win98 directory.

Adapting the INF and using the Driver Pack system.

1) The reason there are different driver directories is because there are identically named files that are common to different device drivers. This is the ONLY reason. So, folder one was filled first, and any drivers with names identical to those in folder one was then put into folder two. And so on. So, for your drivers, pick a folder that won't overwrite any existing files and put them there.

2) Then edit the INF file to add the location. There are two sections to change, "[SourceDisksNames]" and "[SourceDisksFiles]".
 a) the entry under [SourceDisksNames] has to be changed to ALWAYS end in ",,0" see the example below
 b) for each entry in [SourceDisksFiles], you need to add the location of the driver relative to the install directory. see the example below.

Here's an example of an INF file before it was changed:

   [SourceDisksNames]
     1="Trident Windows 98/Me Display Driver",,1:c:\bf_cde

   [SourceDisksFiles]
     trid9910.drv=1
     trid9910.dll=1
     tvdd9910.vxd=1

and so, if you put your drivers into folder 4 then you would adjust it to:

   [SourceDisksNames]
     1="Trident Windows 98/Me Display Driver",,0

   [SourceDisksFiles]
     trid9910.drv=1,D\1
     trid9910.dll=1,D\1
     tvdd9910.vxd=1,D\1

notice how the entry for [SourceDisksNames] has changed as well.

3)
a) Now if you CAN archive the files into a DOS self-extracting archive by using WinRAR (DOS module) then do the following: uncompress an aready existing driverpack and just put you files into the resulting folder and recompress the files. Don't include any directories in the archive, only include files. Don't forget to make the entries in [SourceDisksFiles] inside the INF match the folder you are using. You must do this!

b) if you CAN'T archive the files into a DOS self-extracting archive by using WinRAR (DOS module) or similar, then i will have to do it for you (which i'm happy to do). Send to:  a.good.soporific@gmail.com
