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Is it possible to...

Scouzer

Scouzer

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I work at Futureshop (a Best Buy company in Canada). In the tech room they do over a dozen computers a day where they have to download and install all the patches from Windows Update for every computer.

Is there an efficient way to add these to CD? I know you can have like 50 odd seperate installers, but thats even more inefficient. Is there any way to make it a single installer?

P.S. Not Autoupdater XP...WAY too buggy...
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Ohh no...they come with Windows XP. But they install all the patches onto them. No formatting.
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Ahh, I see what you're saying.

No, I don't think there's a way to combine the installers.
 
Yes there is, I work at Best Buy as a Geek Squad tech and our customizer software has all the updates on a disc with other tools. Before we got that we just networked the updates from a script on our computers.
 
Yes, it is possible. You will have to follow the same procedure as when you slipstream a SP into the installation source.

The switches available for the update files are here.

You will have to add all the update files manually to the installation source. This will require the presence of the standalone executable update files for all the updates you want to include.

Take a single update executable file as an example. We name it update1.exe stored in c:\XPUpdate. Suppose the source is stored at c:\XPSetup. The command to integrate the update in the setup would be:

c:\XPUpdate\Update1.exe /integrate:c:\XPSetup

When you are done adding all the update files, burn a new installation cd using the c:\XPSetup files.

Tada! You have a fully updated installation disc.

 
Originally posted by: asadasif
Yes, it is possible. You will have to follow the same procedure as when you slipstream a SP into the installation source.

The switches available for the update files are here.

You will have to add all the update files manually to the installation source. This will require the presence of the standalone executable update files for all the updates you want to include.

Take a single update executable file as an example. We name it update1.exe stored in c:\XPUpdate. Suppose the source is stored at c:\XPSetup. The command to integrate the update in the setup would be:

c:\XPUpdate\Update1.exe /integrate:c:\XPSetup

When you are done adding all the update files, burn a new installation cd using the c:\XPSetup files.

Tada! You have a fully updated installation disc.
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Your suggestion is a good one, but the OP is not looking for slipstreaming instructions.
 
A majority of the post Service Pack 2 updates support the "/integrate" switch so you can slipstream the updates to your Windows XP installation.

You can also use what I did, a program called, NLite.
It works pretty good.

 
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