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[saetrum]

I am looking for information on installing an .inf file with Windows Installer.  I haven't been able to track down much information, but I thought I could find some help here.  Does anyone have experience doing this, or could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Dave Saetrum

[Gerstl]

Hello,

I have the same problem as you. I want to install a network protocoll and the correspondent service.

I only have a oemsetup.in and a binding.inf

I tryed three different ways for the moment wiht no success.

1. Writing a costum action calling the the folowing command: setup.exe /f /i %systemroot%\system32 cpashel.inf /t NTN_InstallMode = Install /t NTN_Origination = NCPA /t NTN_Infname = %ICA_ROOT_PATH%\BACstac\oemsetup.inf /t NTN_SRCPATH = %ICA_ROOT_PATH%\BACstac /t NTN_Infoption = BACDL

My problem is that I do not understand how to debug in ISWI so I can only test if it works or not. At the moment it seem that I didn't found out the wright custom Action type.

2. I wrote an install script.
calling the same command:

function InstallBACstacProtocol()
STRING szProgram, szCmdLine;
STRING szResult, szCaption;
NUMBER ret;
begin                        
//SetBACstacInstallationFolder();
   szProgram = WINSYSDIR ^"SETUP.EXE";
   szCmdLine = "/f /i ";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + WINSYSDIR;
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "ncpashel.inf /t NTN_InstallMode = ";
   
   bReinstall_g = FALSE;
   
   if(bReinstall_g = TRUE) then
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "Update";
   else
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "install";
endif;
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + " /t NTN_Origination = NCPA ";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "/t NTN_Infname = \"";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + TARGETDIR;
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "\\BACstac\\oemsetup.inf";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "\" /t NTN_SRCPATH = \"";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + TARGETDIR ^"BACstac";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "\" /t NTN_Infoption = BACDL";
   ret = LaunchAppAndWait (szProgram, szCmdLine, WAIT);
   if (ret!=0) then
       szResult = "Error Installing BACstac Protocol";
       szCaption = "BACstac Protocol"; // SdLoadString(IFX_ONMAINTUI_CAPTION);
   SprintfBox(MB_OK,szCaption,"%s",szResult);
endif;
   szCmdLine = "/f /i ";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + WINSYSDIR;
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "ncpashel.inf /t NTN_InstallMode = install /t NTN_Origination = NCPA ";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "/t NTN_Infname = \"";
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + TARGETDIR;
   szCmdLine = szCmdLine + "\\BACstac\\binding.inf\"";
   ret = LaunchAppAndWait (szProgram, szCmdLine, WAIT);
   if (ret!=0) then
       szResult = "Error Installing BACstac Protocol";
       szCaption = "BACstac Protocol"; //SdLoadString(IFX_ONMAINTUI_CAPTION);
   SprintfBox(MB_OK,szCaption,"%s",szResult);
endif;
end;

As I did not found out for the moment how to debug install scripts I only can accept thath it seem for me that the script is never called. (I call it via an custom action Type 65744)

3. I used the spy programm.
The spy programm works very well. It finds out all nessesary components and registry entries. It also recognizes the service. But if i try the load the script.inc File into the iswi it brings me an error message. (Service could not be loaded ). If I make out of the result an setup all is being installed correctly even the service. The only problem is that the service can not be started.

Let me know if you find out a working way.

[Ramesh]

I had a similar requirement for Installing a network Driver. I have an inf, and a corresponding .sys file. I understand that your requirements are a somewhat different, but that this might help :

Use SetupCopyOEMInf to copy the inf file to the system, To actually install the driver as per the specs in the inf file, use the DDK interface methods. I have outlined the skeleton of the calls I made for installing a network driver.

INetCfg*pNetCfg = NULL;
hResult = CoInitializeEx(NULL,COINIT_DISABLE_OLE1DDE | COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED );
bResult = SetupCopyOEMInf(szINFFullPath,szInstallDir,SPOST_PATH,SP_COPY_DELETESOURCE,szInfNameAfterC
opy,MAX_PATH,NULL,NULL);
hResult = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_CNetCfg,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_INetCfg,(void **)&pNetCfg);
hResult = pNetCfg->QueryInterface(IID_INetCfgLock,(LPVOID *)&pncLock);
hResult = pncLock->AcquireWriteLock(2000, L"CustomDriver",(LPWSTR *)wsLockingApp);
hResult = pNetCfg->Initialize(NULL);
hResult = pNetCfg->QueryNetCfgClass(&GUID_DEVCLASS_NETTRANS,IID_INetCfgClassSetup,(void **)&pncSetup);
hResult = pncSetup->Install(L"ms_packet",&oboToken,NSF_POSTSYSINSTALL,0,NULL,NULL,&
amp;pncComponent);
hResult = pncSetup->Release();
hResult = pNetCfg->Apply();
hResult = pNetCfg->Uninitialize();
       hResult = pncLock->ReleaseWriteLock();
pNetCfg->Release();
CoUninitialize();