Slipstream Windows XP with SP3 and updates (and drivers)

squeaky

NOPE.

I've tried both methods with:

• My original SP1 installation disk
• My slipstreamed SP2 installation disk

In all cases, and both methods are different, they froze at the point they started the slipstream.

I can't believe I haven't actually sworn at this! I must be getting more patient in my old age.

squeaky

OK, you can call me a muppet.

squeaky

Well, I found out what was freezing the slipstreaming.

Zone Alarm.

(Neither program reported anything - just froze.)

I now have a handy (but not fully up to date) Win XP sp3 bootable installation disk.

Getting up to date is a different matter.

nlite expects the updates to be of the form... KB123456

They're all sitting in my windows folder listed as $spuninstKB123456 type files. How do I translate those into something nlite can use?

And for another unanswerable question - why do I have less hair this afternoon than I did this morning?


Edit: And for a third unanswerable question - why is all this so involved? I've got my very own original disk in my grubby little mit; all of the windows updates are sitting stashed in my windows folder... so why the flying fynn can't someone (even microsnot, perhaps) put together a simple program. Simple to use, that is...

1. Put your original disk in your CD drive.
2. Press the "Slipstream Now" button.
3. <whizz><burr><flashy-lighty><whizz><beep>
4. "Slipstream completed". Use any program you like to burn the streamed iso which we have kindly saved for you in c:\WINDOWS\BootableDiscs\ under the filename WinXPupdated<DATE>.iso

damo24

For updates have a look at http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ I'm not sure it works with the nlite method but it certainly works fine with the other methods.

-TangleFoot-

damo24 wrote: »

I'm not sure it works with the nlite method

It should, the guy provides instructions!

squeaky

damo24 wrote: »

For updates have a look at http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/ I'm not sure it works with the nlite method but it certainly works fine with the other methods.

Thanks - I shall look after my tea.

According to my windows folder I have 82 read 'em and weep... EIGHTY TWO KBxxxxxx uninst files which have inbuilt KBnumbers greater than the KB number of sp3. So I take it that they are all later?

squeaky

-TangleFoot- wrote: »

It should, the guy provides instructions!

Thanks, I'll be looking at those too.

Surely, in this day and age it ought to be a darn sight easier to do! Sheesh!

I have to say, for the nlite - you get that dinky little crytic prompt up in the header, then, if you do something wrong a prompt opens up which explains a bit more about what you are supposed to be doing. Thing is - there's LOADS of space in those early windows below the input points to put all the info in from the prompt (and more!) so that you DON'T keep getting rotten-well-beeped-at FIRST.

And it doesn't check and validate very well, nor do you get much clue on progress so you're guessing... "Have I just crashed it or is it doing something...?...oh! here it is, yep it was doing something"

AS for... "Now input all the updates that you've downloaded..." ???

squeaky

Cracked it.

Got an XP3 plus KB's installtion disk now. Thanks.

Just one eensy teensy thing... there are loads and loads of drivers in c:\windows\system32\drivers but they are all dot sys or dot dll files and nlite is only looking for dot inf files (of which there are none).

nlite will accept the multiple folder option and the hidden folder c:\windows\system32\DRVSTORE but I've no idea if that's the whole lot that are available or just the ones I have loaded. I "think" it's the former rather than the latter (which presumably are those in the drivers folder. Anybody know how to get nlite to accept my current set of drivers please?

Hmmm... once I've got this last wrinkle sorted out I think I'll modify post #1 to contain an idiots guide to this lot with all the correct links and so on that you guys have helped out with.

Also found this place earlier today:- http://www.techsupportforum.com/

And an offering from there is in this post: Two streaming articles

squeaky

Just what it says on the tin.

No doubt it will need a teak or two - but it covers the basics.

-TangleFoot-

squeaky wrote: »

Anybody know how to get nlite to accept my current set of drivers please?

Drivers already installed on the system cannot be used by nLite - you need to get them from somewhere else. Usually, you'll find them on the discs supplied with their associated hardware, but if these are not available you should be able to find the drivers on the Internet. In the rare event that they cannot be found, you can use something like Double Driver to back up those that are in use; you can then import the resulting files into nLite.

Be careful: doing this can add a lot of extra bulk to the image, which may result in it being too large to burn to disc!

Usually I just keep copies of any drivers I need on a separate storage medium - they can always be added after Windows has been installed anyway.