Re: slipstreaming question

From: Lew (lewill_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:31:22 -0400

I have the SP2 download burned to disk. The slipstreaming is just a
learning excercise really. I am mostly curious about the DVD+R bootable. 

-- 
Lew
"Stephen Harris" <Stephen_P_Harris@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "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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