Re: SP2 dowload size
From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 10/03/04
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Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 13:49:11 -0400
William B. Lurie wrote:
> Will Denny wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> An upgrade to SP2 via Windows Update can vary between 80 & 120 MBs -
>> depending on what WU finds already on your system (file not
>> downloadable separately). The downloadable SP2 file (266 MBs)
>> contains all the previous Updates. This file can be used to update XP
>> from an 'original' CD install, SP1/1a or used to create a slipstreamed
>> XP SP2 CD for a 'Clean' install of XP SP2.
>>
> Okay, I thank you all for, and understand the logic and
> the differences. I normally prefer to do upgrades like
> that off-line, so I'll just wait for my CD to arrive in
> the mail. Just as a point of information.....I intend to
> upgrade my backup (cloned) system first, leaving my main
> hard drive in a safe condition. I don't trust my main
> system to something not previously tested by me and found
> safe. That way I only have to walk in my own footsteps, not
> somebody else's.
>
> And I can't do SP2 on my cloned system online because Symantec
> gets unhappy and requires re-activation of their software
> every time I try to go online with my cloned system. I
> wouldn't mind having to do that when and if it becomes
> necessary, but every now and then they even refuse to
> activate, make me phone in, go through too much "Big Brother
> is watching you" rigamarole.
>
And now, 2 hours later, a report on my progress. I followed
through as intended, except that I made a CD copy of the
279Meg SP2 download. The implication has been that it is
what I will eventually receive on CD from Microsoft. I
tried to install it as the upgrade on the good working
clone of my main system. I fired it up and turned off
all the application programs I could, especially Norton
Anti-Virus. I also disconnected from the phone line, since
I prefer not to run my system online without A-V protection.
It started nicely, and did all the checking it does, and I
thought it was making progress nicely. It did all the backing
up, the last of which was Registry. Then I got an error
window:
"Unable to read from or write to database".
I thought, maybe that means a Microsoft online database,
but as I said above, I am installing this upgrade offline.
Well, not knowing what to do about it, I just closed that
window, and it proceeded, for a while, and then came the
fatal error...the window which read
"Install did not complete".
It just hung there, and gave no choices, so I waited a
while and then just shut the system down and am now back
in operation on my main system. I have no idea what
condition the clone is, half way between SP1 and SP2 maybe.
What did I do wrong?
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William B. Lurie
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