Quinton's Driver Installer

Note:

The main branch is treated much like an unstable testing branch I recommend you download and use the build from the Stable branch. There, I will publish the version of the program that is prepared for use on the Surplus floor

This is a rewrite of the original NAU Surplus driver installer I wrote written in Go. This edition is written in python and introduces additional functionality that would have been a pain to write in Go.

New Features

New Interface Screen

To be totally honest, nothing much has really changed here, other than the inclusion of a few more install options, as well as a cute cow displaying the name of the application. The goal is to eventually implement an easy to use GUI interface over the course of the application's development.

Downloads MediaCreationTool directly from Microsoft's Website

Initially, the media creation tool executable was included on the installation usb and had to manually by copied and pasted onto the target computer for the Windows 10 update step. Now, the script will download a copy directly from the microsoft website and save it to the target computer's Desktop folder

Auto-Corrects system clock

This version of the installer will automatically update the system clock. This is always helpful when accessing the internet. If you don't know what I mean, most of this program will not work, since it is necessary to access the internet to install drivers. And, with the incorrect time, you can not access the internet.

NEW GUI Implementation

We now have an easy to use GUI that will save your fingers and sanity from writing the commands into the command line. It will be constantly updated and maintained to make sure that nothing breaks and that the interface is as easy to understand as possible for our technicians.

How To Make The .exe

In case you need to "recompile" this code, you're going to need to convert these .py files into a single .exe file. To do this, make sure you have a copy of Python 3.7 (the version this code was tested on) installed on the computer and make sure pyinstaller is installed using the python tool pip.

If you're not sure it is installed, go to a cmd window and type:

pip install pyinstaller

Here, you will need to navigate into the folder containing the .py files (within the cmd window). Make yourself familiar with the cd command in the console. For example:

cd Downloads/qSurplusPrep

Once you're in the folder containing all of the .py files, run the command in your console:

pyinstaller --uac-admin --onefile userInterface.py

NOTE: there is a known issue with this process and the uac-admin command. if any errors spring up from this, refer to this stackoverflow page: PyInstaller UAC Issue

After this command is run, however, it should spit out a .exe file inside of a folder named dist

NOTE: You're done creating the .exe However, when you put it on a USB, make sure that it is accompanied by the Scripts folder, containing all of the install tools. The folder hierarchy should look like this:

• userInterface.exe
• Scripts
  • SDI.exe
  • DCU.exe
  • etc.

Where userInterface.exe is the compiled python program to double-click.

I will try to include a copy of the latest working Scripts file so that you don't have to search around the internet for the correct dependencies. (Inside Latest_Working_Scripts folder)