er, he may have misspoke? I am only seeing 19GB as maximum downloads at my end on Windows 10. Hang on...

Horun wrote on 2020-02-20, 00:37:

The full snappy driver pack is 90GB, no thanks.

Horun? Could you show a screenshot or something of where you saw that?

I've just tried this on a Pentium 4 Samsung laptop that I've been struggling to get drivers for and in the 16GB download I got it doesnt have any of the missing drivers in it so I could really do with knowing how to get the full 90GB of historical drivers (a download link would be useful please) - it does give the option of going online to download them but one of them happens to be the Ethernet driver!

I know I could just get the Ethernet driver from somewhere else but that kind of defeats the object of being able to use the Snappy Driver Installer offline.

Is there perhaps an alternative to SDI that I should be using for old retro laptops instead?

Stiletto wrote on 2020-02-22, 06:20:

er, he may have misspoke? I am only seeing 19GB as maximum downloads at my end on Windows 10. Hang on...

Horun wrote on 2020-02-20, 00:37:

The full snappy driver pack is 90GB, no thanks.

Horun? Could you show a screenshot or something of where you saw that?

I may have miss stated but on one of the pages at SDI is says: Script for unpacking all driverpacks (requires about 90GB)
last line here: https://sdi-tool.org/settings/?lang=en

Horun wrote on 2020-02-22, 15:30:

I may have miss stated but on one of the pages at SDI is says: Script for unpacking all driverpacks (requires about 90GB)
last line here: https://sdi-tool.org/settings/?lang=en

Ah, that would be to extract all the 7z's that SDI downloads.

While running SDI, even if you download all 19 GB of the Driverpacks, SDI will not extract them all into temp files. It extracts the files it needs from each of the driverpacks one at a time, so far as I know, then deletes its temp files once it's done installing. After running SDI, the only things remaining are your configuration file, the index files, the log files, and any driverpacks that you chose to install.

"Unpacking all driverpacks" would only be necessary if you wanted to, say, create your own driverpacks and left as an option for SDI developers, not the average SDI user.

How do you get all the older driver packs as when I'm running it on my Windows XP laptops it wants to go online to get the drivers and seeing as Ethernet drivers always seem to be missing that's not possible so ideally I'd like to have all the older driver packs as at the moment it only works offline on 'modern' PCs?

FazzaGBR wrote on 2020-02-25, 11:00:

How do you get all the older driver packs as when I'm running it on my Windows XP laptops it wants to go online to get the drivers and seeing as Ethernet drivers always seem to be missing that's not possible so ideally I'd like to have all the older driver packs as at the moment it only works offline on 'modern' PCs?

I think you'll need to research this yourself and check with their support. I only ever run SDI latest version on much newer hardware (got a 2009 desktop, a 2013 laptop and a 2017 laptop all running Windows 10 1909).