Re: slipstreaming question

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From: Stephen Harris (Stephen_P_Harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:08:24 -0700

"Lew" <lewill@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I just used Autostreamer from Neowin to slipstream my SP2 into my original
WinXP Pro boot disk. Worked great. I have two other boxes (Dell) with XP
Pro preloaded . I have the Dell OS restore disks for each. I have heard
that some OEM installs with SP2 slipstreamed exceed the capacity of a CDR.
Assuming my load drive is a DVD ROM and I have a DVD+RW writer can I copy
the slipstreamed, bootable ISO file to a DVD+R if it is too large for a CDR? 

-- 
Lew
I thought Autostreamer was the best way to do this (also). I've also read
of issues with using OEM disks. Can you download the 266mb SP2 file
and burn it to disk? Then run the upgrade from the cd or transfer it to
the harddrive and then run the upgrade. It seems less fraught with peril
and time consumption...you notice that autostream omits most of
ValueAdd and is not as functional as a win xp sp1 slipstream. I don't
know exactly how autostream works, it may have a catalog of files to
be loaded which would need to be edited. Unless this is a for fun project,
SP2 contains all of SP1 if upgrading from a fresh install.
Regards,
Stephen

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