WinXP Slipstreaming more than the SP

Ginger

Hi

I have slipstreamed SP2 into my original XP install disk and created it with the boot image.

Thing is I would like to add some/all of the Updates to date into the Install disk as well. Can you slipstream the updates in as well..

I am asking because I have a few machines i will be setting up (different configs so ghosting is not an option) and I would like them all to be patched from initial install rather than spending more time getting them updated?

Any ideas

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woolymammoth

The simple answer is, yes!

mickoneill30

Have a look at Autopatcher too
http://www.autopatcher.com/downloads/
They update it every month or so with all the XP patches. You run it after you've installed your OS

woolymammoth

Just remember that the updates are different to the full version. You must have the full version unpacked to the hard disk first, then you can apply an update to it and run the program. This, i think, won't do you for slipstreaming though, as autopatcher is intended to be run on the PC to update it. you'll need to gather all of the hotfixes in one folder for nlite to add to your image.

While i'm thinking of it, Install Pad would be worth looking at too for when you've the PC's up and running.

Ginger

woolymammoth that looks like what I will need.

Autopatcher is not a solution in this case as I dont want to have run anything other than the Windows install.

I will give a go, i will down the updates from the Windows Update site using the Windows Admin version.. That should do the trick i think

Ginger

Woolymammoth, nLite is perfect, thanks bro.. exactly what I want...

Creating versions for our Dev team so that IIS is loaded automagically etc etc...

Capt'n Midnight

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828217
Extract the 824146 security patch package to a folder (for example, C:\824146) by using the /x command-line switch.

Ginger

Right from the windows catalog it doesnt seem to be giving me all the security patches... anywhere i can get them all??

woolymammoth

You can get them from the Autopatcher files. Sorry, i should've explained myself better before. Autopatcher extracts all of the files (hotfixes, patches, updates, tweaks) to the hard disk. only then do you run the program to choose and install the ones you want. you can manually geather all of the fixes & patches out of the autopatcher folders into one single folder to integrate to nlite. It's tedious, but there isn't really any other way that i'm aware of.

Ginger

Well that seems fair enough, i will see how i get on with that.. now that i can integrate the device drivers as well, i am going to remake my XP disk for my home machine as well

Thanks

Ginger

Found a few things.. maybe they will help others

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/updatepack.html -- Use the RyanVM Integrator to integrate all the hotfixes into your install. Also includes all the critical patches in one handy download

And of course http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/ for creating your unattended setup and other handy tips to make your standard windows install disk just that little bit easier

Thanks for all the help guys

seamus

nLite is the business for this.

If you really want to get *everything*, you can download WSUS from Microsoft, set it up on a dummy server, tell it to download everything. Then you can point nLite at the directory to which all of these updates were downloaded and it will include them.

Ginger

Created an ISO with RyanVM and nLite together and its the dogs.. Everything configured also with an unattended installation. Tested on a virtual machine. Works very well

Thanks for all the help guys