Hi,
Does anyone have any idea if and when the latest Vista DDK CTP (i.e.
5308) will be visible on MSDN again?
Robin MItra
It was not called DDK anymore but WDK, “Windows Driver Kit”. But now there
is a new WDK out there which stands for “Windows Development Kit”. I hope
it is going to be a part of that but it is a whole 1.8GB to find out. If you
know the answer…
/Daniel
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Hi,
Does anyone have any idea if and when the latest Vista DDK CTP (i.e.
5308) will be visible on MSDN again?
Robin MItra
Funny you should mention it; didn’t they just repost that? Now it’s
in the “OS” folder, along with the Vista 5308 builds themselves. (At
least that’s what I saw with MSDN Universal.) Posted March 24, if I
recall correctly.
But I’ve not been able to successfully install from the one that was
just posted (acts as though the installation source is corrupted), but
the disc image doesn’t have an AutoCRC so I wasn’t able to confirm
integrity of my download either. Still investigating.
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any idea if and when the latest Vista DDK CTP (i.e.
> 5308) will be visible on MSDN again?
>
> Robin MItra
Alan Adams
“Daniel Terhell” wrote:
> It was not called DDK anymore but WDK, “Windows Driver Kit”. But now there
> is a new WDK out there which stands for “Windows Development Kit”. I hope
> it is going to be a part of that but it is a whole 1.8GB to find out. If you
> know the answer…
I agree that the MSDN download text appears to mis-characterize as
“Windows Vista CTP - February 2006 - Build 5308 (Windows Developers
Kit) (English)”. Makes it seem like its something between the Driver
Kit and the Platform SDK.
But that appears to just be an MSDN-ism, as opposed to any official
product/project naming change. i.e. Someone just decided to type
“Developers” instead of “Driver” when naming the MSDN upload.
At least on the CD itself, WDM still stands for “Driver”. And the
layout of the CD is unchanged from the 5308 WDK that was previously
pulled; only specific .CAB files are showing as differences. No
sweeping inclusions/exclusions compared to the prior WDK.
The SHA-1 hash of my downloaded .ISO image checks out. (According to
what’s posted on the page right now;
“cba2462d24304f46ca40af0563710ea97b10d5b5”.) But when running
SETUP.EXE on Vista 5308 x86 or 5342 x86, I’m getting: “This
installation package could not be opened. Contact the application
vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.”
Inspecting the resulting DVD (on two different burns) shows that the
file content for a vast number of files is actually all bytes with the
value 0x00. (For example, inspect the content of any .EXE or .MSI
file immediately under the \debuggers\ directory.) Because its in UDF
format I’m not already familiar with tools for exploring the .ISO
directly, so I’m having to assume my burner is laying down exactly
what’s in the image.
So I’m thinking the new MSDN download of the 5308 WDK is just a bad
image. Anyone with information to the contrary please share.
Alan Adams
Ah, it’s there…
Last time I looked was 23. mar.
Thanks
Robin
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Alan Adams
Sent: Dienstag, 28. M?rz 2006 00:12
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] DDK 530x
Funny you should mention it; didn’t they just repost that? Now it’s
in the “OS” folder, along with the Vista 5308 builds themselves. (At
least that’s what I saw with MSDN Universal.) Posted March 24, if I
recall correctly.
But I’ve not been able to successfully install from the one that was
just posted (acts as though the installation source is corrupted), but
the disc image doesn’t have an AutoCRC so I wasn’t able to confirm
integrity of my download either. Still investigating.
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any idea if and when the latest Vista DDK CTP (i.e.
> 5308) will be visible on MSDN again?
>
> Robin MItra
Alan Adams
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I can confirm that the downloaded image doesn’t work.
I tried using various image mounting tools (including the one from OSR) and actually burning an image to disk.
Always says “The inastallation package could not be opened. Please contact…”
I guess we’ll have to wait until it reappears under the SDK/DDK folder. 
Robin
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Sent: Dienstag, 28. M?rz 2006 12:05
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Subject: RE: [ntdev] DDK 530x
Ah, it’s there…
Last time I looked was 23. mar.
Thanks
Robin Mitra
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Alan Adams
Sent: Dienstag, 28. M?rz 2006 00:12
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] DDK 530x
Funny you should mention it; didn’t they just repost that? Now it’s
in the “OS” folder, along with the Vista 5308 builds themselves. (At
least that’s what I saw with MSDN Universal.) Posted March 24, if I
recall correctly.
But I’ve not been able to successfully install from the one that was
just posted (acts as though the installation source is corrupted), but
the disc image doesn’t have an AutoCRC so I wasn’t able to confirm
integrity of my download either. Still investigating.
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any idea if and when the latest Vista DDK CTP (i.e.
> 5308) will be visible on MSDN again?
>
> Robin MItra
Alan Adams
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Thanks for telling, I was awaiting some feedback. A 1.8GB download for a DDK
just sounded to good to be true.
/Daniel
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I can confirm that the downloaded image doesn’t work.
I tried using various image mounting tools (including the one from OSR) and
actually burning an image to disk.
Always says “The inastallation package could not be opened. Please
contact…”
I guess we’ll have to wait until it reappears under the SDK/DDK folder.
Robin
wrote:
> I can confirm that the downloaded image doesn’t work.
> I tried using various image mounting tools (including the one
> from OSR) and actually burning an image to disk. Always says
> “The inastallation package could not be opened. Please contact…”
>
> I guess we’ll have to wait until it reappears under the SDK/DDK folder.
Despite the fact that the publishing date still says “Date/Time
Posted: 2006-03-24” on the MSDN download description, sometime between
Saturday and this morning the “SHA-1 Hash” has been updated from what
I posted previously (“cba2462d24304f46ca40af0563710ea97b10d5b5”) to
now be “88268b03c41abd529a6f0646847fb5adb5ac89b7”.
This is actually the SHA-1 checksum of the 5308 WDK .ISO image that
was previously available when the February 2006 CTP was originally
released and then later was pulled/removed.
And indeed, the contents of the 5308 WDK .ISO currently available on
MSDN as “Windows Vista CTP - February 2006 - Build 5308 (Windows
Developers Kit) (English)” are no different (by even one file) than
the 5308 WDK I already had from the February 2006 CTP release.
Did anyone ever hear or see something official as to why the 5308 WDK
had been pulled? The fact that it contained the private symbols for
the 5308 kernel was suggested, but never officially presented as the
reason anywhere I saw Microsoft comment. (And this latest download
still has the same contents as the original release.)
But just to be clear, if you already have the February 2006 CTP 5308
WDK download from February 2006, there is no point to downloading this
latest 5308 WDK image from MSDN because it’s exactly the same.
Alan Adams
The broken one was replaced sometime between Mar.28 and Apr.1.
I downloaded the ‘new’ one on Apr. 1, and that’s OK. It’s still dated
Mar.24 though.
BTW it’s now called:
en_windows_vista_ctp_february_2006_windows_driver_kit.iso
^^^^^^
I’m sorry I forgot to follow up here.
Robin
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Alan Adams
Sent: Montag, 3. April 2006 21:08
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re:[ntdev] DDK 530x
wrote:
> I can confirm that the downloaded image doesn’t work.
> I tried using various image mounting tools (including the one
> from OSR) and actually burning an image to disk. Always says
> “The inastallation package could not be opened. Please contact…”
>
> I guess we’ll have to wait until it reappears under the SDK/DDK
folder.
Despite the fact that the publishing date still says “Date/Time
Posted: 2006-03-24” on the MSDN download description, sometime between
Saturday and this morning the “SHA-1 Hash” has been updated from what
I posted previously (“cba2462d24304f46ca40af0563710ea97b10d5b5”) to
now be “88268b03c41abd529a6f0646847fb5adb5ac89b7”.
This is actually the SHA-1 checksum of the 5308 WDK .ISO image that
was previously available when the February 2006 CTP was originally
released and then later was pulled/removed.
And indeed, the contents of the 5308 WDK .ISO currently available on
MSDN as “Windows Vista CTP - February 2006 - Build 5308 (Windows
Developers Kit) (English)” are no different (by even one file) than
the 5308 WDK I already had from the February 2006 CTP release.
Did anyone ever hear or see something official as to why the 5308 WDK
had been pulled? The fact that it contained the private symbols for
the 5308 kernel was suggested, but never officially presented as the
reason anywhere I saw Microsoft comment. (And this latest download
still has the same contents as the original release.)
But just to be clear, if you already have the February 2006 CTP 5308
WDK download from February 2006, there is no point to downloading this
latest 5308 WDK image from MSDN because it’s exactly the same.
Alan Adams
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Hadn’t checked back in a while; I see the download was apparently
touched yet again, on April 7, and the new .ISO has an SHA-1 of
“97e9427117cd1412f833e3d42799ccd3503abc5a”.
The downloaded image now shows a volume label of “5308_WDKCTP_a”
(instead of “LB1WDK_EN”) and is different only on ddk_dbgachk.cab,
dbgichk.cab and dbgxchk.cab relative to the prior valid 5308 WDK
image.
So overall perhaps now more in line with what would have been expected
for the 5308 WDK being reposted to MSDN.
wrote:
> The broken one was replaced sometime between Mar.28 and Apr.1.
> I downloaded the ‘new’ one on Apr. 1, and that’s OK. It’s still dated
> Mar.24 though.
>
> BTW it’s now called:
> en_windows_vista_ctp_february_2006_windows_driver_kit.iso
> ^^^^^^
> I’m sorry I forgot to follow up here.
>
> Robin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Alan Adams
> Sent: Montag, 3. April 2006 21:08
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: Re:[ntdev] DDK 530x
>
> wrote:
>
> > I can confirm that the downloaded image doesn’t work.
> > I tried using various image mounting tools (including the one
> > from OSR) and actually burning an image to disk. Always says
> > “The inastallation package could not be opened. Please contact…”
> >
> > I guess we’ll have to wait until it reappears under the SDK/DDK
> folder.
>
> Despite the fact that the publishing date still says “Date/Time
> Posted: 2006-03-24” on the MSDN download description, sometime between
> Saturday and this morning the “SHA-1 Hash” has been updated from what
> I posted previously (“cba2462d24304f46ca40af0563710ea97b10d5b5”) to
> now be “88268b03c41abd529a6f0646847fb5adb5ac89b7”.
>
> This is actually the SHA-1 checksum of the 5308 WDK .ISO image that
> was previously available when the February 2006 CTP was originally
> released and then later was pulled/removed.
>
> And indeed, the contents of the 5308 WDK .ISO currently available on
> MSDN as “Windows Vista CTP - February 2006 - Build 5308 (Windows
> Developers Kit) (English)” are no different (by even one file) than
> the 5308 WDK I already had from the February 2006 CTP release.
>
> Did anyone ever hear or see something official as to why the 5308 WDK
> had been pulled? The fact that it contained the private symbols for
> the 5308 kernel was suggested, but never officially presented as the
> reason anywhere I saw Microsoft comment. (And this latest download
> still has the same contents as the original release.)
>
> But just to be clear, if you already have the February 2006 CTP 5308
> WDK download from February 2006, there is no point to downloading this
> latest 5308 WDK image from MSDN because it’s exactly the same.
>
> Alan Adams
>
> —
> Questions? First check the Kernel Driver FAQ at
> http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?id=256
>
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