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Slipstream Vista SP1 how to?

You can make an installable SP1 Vista disc, you must just use the AIK:

Here's the AIK which you'll need if you want to create an installable disc for Vista with SP1 already integrated into it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl...657de08&DisplayLang=en

It'd be EASIER though to download such an installable image from MSDN/Technet if you have access to those, or just copy a disc that is already updated in that way.


..they mention doing that in the neowin article the previous poster linked to.

Of course there's nothing STOPPING you from just using an alternative Ghost / Clonezilla / image backup type of solution on an already updated and installed Vista SP1 and just using that tool set's restore capability to restore that image when / where needed.

If you have access to MSDN/TechNet you can just download the Vista + SP1 ISO image and install from that in the future.

 
If you have the setup for it, you might consider just using a virtual machine manager to use the AIK, install vista, update it to SP1, clean up, capture the image all in a VM.

That will be faster (if it works) than doing it on a real PC, and it doesn't require that you have a spare boot hard disk / spare PC to prepare the image on.

 
I do not have access to Technet or Windows Vista discs with SP1 integrated. Microsoft have step by step instructions for the AIK on how to integrate SP1? I have never used it before.
 
Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I do not have access to Technet or Windows Vista discs with SP1 integrated. Microsoft have step by step instructions for the AIK on how to integrate SP1? I have never used it before.
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Darn it, I know I was just reading a few articles and comments from the below sites, then some other link from off of there and I found a useful set of instructions as to getting the slipstream done for your existing legitimate vista licence, but then I closed the window and forgot to bookmark it.
My apologies for not remembering the exact link I followed, but maybe you can find the useful information if you start at one or the other of these links maybe you can find the FAQ I stumbled on.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/...-version-with-torrent/
http://www.mydigitallife.info/...-download-via-torrent/

I'll probably try to do the slipstream sysprep from a VM soon and save myself the pain of dedicating a whole PC to the installation.

 
Originally posted by: QuixoticOne
If you have the setup for it, you might consider just using a virtual machine manager to use the AIK, install vista, update it to SP1, clean up, capture the image all in a VM.

That will be faster (if it works) than doing it on a real PC, and it doesn't require that you have a spare boot hard disk / spare PC to prepare the image on.
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Gee I forget how their image installer works. A typical Vista disc contains installation images
for most every vista edition of the same bitness (e.g. 32 bit home basic, home premium, business, ultimate, all on one disc). I forget if that works because there is ONE installation image and it is just the common INSTALLER that sets the options to install the selected edition, OR if it works by having DIFFERENT image files on the one disc for EACH edition.

If the latter, it might be a ROYAL pain if one wanted to create a generic SP1 install disc with the same capabilities as your original RTM disc IF (hypothesis) you had to generate new distinct images for EACH edition as a distinct install / imaging step. That could take all day; ugh. I hope they made it intelligent enough to use a common installer so all you need to do is make one image and it'd work for all editions (just like your original install disc typically does).

 
Quixotic, it's a single image with certain features not installed based on the version of the OS desired.
 
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