Re: Slipstreamed CD
- From: Desert Rider <brogue6150@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:50:47 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 25, 10:52 am, Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote:
I've just created a slipstreamed installation CD of my original OEM
Dell XP SP1 and the network installation of SP2. I used Autostreamer
and the process seemed to go fine. It created an ISO file of about 550
MB. I then burned that to a CD making sure it was a bootable disk.
This is the first time I've done this and I'm not sure what the
process would be if I wanted to re-install XP. I assume I would insert
the CD and then reboot the system. How does the installation process
start from the ISO file? Is this automatic -- the necessary
installation files are extracted from the ISO file and the
installation proceeds from there?
I will also be burning a CD of the extracted SP2 files. Does this CD
have to also be a bootable disk? My thinking is that if the
slipstreamed CD did not work I could always format the partition,
install the OEM XP SP1 and then update to XP SP2 from the 2nd CD. Of
course, I would have to then re-install the latest drivers, Windows
updates, programs, data, etc. but I've got all that backed up on an
external hard drive and I know how to do that.
I would appreciate any input on this. I have done a couple of format/
clean installs of XP before but obviously it's a long process having
to use an XP SP1 CD, then updating to XP SP2 via Windows Update.
A better way to do the job is to use NLite 1.4 as it takes all of this
work out of the user's hand and packages it up for you as a finished
ISO if you like. Blank CDs being cheap, I'd give it a shot.
- Thee Chicago Wolf
I actually did use nLite on my second attempt. Once I OK'd the removal
of Software Update files it completed the process. I checked the
folder where I had transfered the Dell XP SP1 files and the update
files had been removed there. I had configured it to make it a
bootable CD and I think it was successful. Here are a couple of screen
shots. 1st shows the isoimage with the slipstreamed structure and the
second is of the bootable CD window. Anyone out there able to confirm
that this looks right? If so, I'd feel pretty confident about redoing
it and writing direct to a CD.
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/hicountryrider/test/isobstr2_alt.gif
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m174/hicountryrider/test/isobstr3_alt.gif
.
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