What does "slipstream the Service Pack" mean?

[mgpaulus]

I have been reading about some info about the new XP Service Pack 1. Anyway, what do they mean when they say, they expect the user to "slipstream the Service Pack"?

Thanks.

 

[AndyHui]

Create a Windows XP CDROM with Service Pack 1 already applied to the source files.

This results in a straight up installation of WinXP SP1, without having to go through the additional process of installing SP1 separately.

 

[JellyBaby]

It's "slipstream" a term from Star Trek?

 

[Citadel535]

It's the greatest thing since sliced bread for administrative installs.

If you make an administrative flat of a program, which is a central distribution folder usually on a server, you can "slipstream" the service pack onto it. That means the service pack updates the installation files so that any new install done from administration flat will now come with a service pack / hotfix.

For example I create an admin flat of Office 2000 (original release) in E:\Apps\MSOffice2k Now I run the Microsoft Service Pack 1 and choose to update the install at E:\Apps\MSOffice2k. Any install from this point on will place Office 2000 SP-1 on my workstations.

Also you can have people who have the prior release now run the install and update to SP-1. It really works great.

HTH,

=======
Citadel

 

[joemamma]

i thought i remember reading about splistreaming the sp2 with win2k......does anybody know that link or how to do it?

 

[jazzman42379]

So from what I can make in that article, if you just install SP1 to WinXP, it won't do anything or change anything for the activation? And that the 'plan' is to incorporate the 'fix' into the customized version of XP with SP1 already installed?

 

[allansaunders]

Main Entry: 1slip·stream
Pronunciation: 'slip-"strEm
Function: noun
Date: 1913
1 : a stream of fluid (as air or water) driven aft by a propeller
2 : an area of reduced air pressure and forward suction immediately behind a rapidly moving vehicle

From Merriam Webster. This term comes up in bike racing a lot. Teams will create a phalanx in the lead, allowing their star to groove along with less effort in the slipstream, till the final leg. Ask Vince Armstrong.
I think the term gets an interesting new twist in IT.
A simple google search will yeild pages upon pages of instructions on how to create a slipstreamed install CD.

 

[apriest]

http://www.jsifaq.com/subf/tip2500/rh2529.htm

 

[SharkB8]

joemamma-

Here is your link.