Windows XP Slipstreaming XP SP2 & freeing up space

[Archman]

Hi people,

I followed some links for slipstreaming my originall Dell OEM XP cd, and that worked beautifully.

Now I slipstreamed a friend's Win XP Pro CD with SP1 to a new CD with SP2 on his PC, but now I can not make a CD because the WinXP folder is now over 700 MB and it will not fit onto a CD-R. Nor does he have a DVD drive at all, so I can not make a DVD-R for him.

Is there anything I can delete to shrink the size of the new WinXP w/ SP2 folder? Can I uninstall/delete languages from some of the directoried (and where and which ones)? It is sitting at about 720 MB right now, so I need to delete about 20-25 MB of stuff... any links to good sites on a streamlined Slipstreamed XP CD?

thanks

 

[D1gger]

Originally posted by: Archman
Hi people,

I followed some links for slipstreaming my originall Dell OEM XP cd, and that worked beautifully.

Now I slipstreamed a friend's Win XP Pro CD with SP1 to a new CD with SP2 on his PC, but now I can not make a CD because the WinXP folder is now over 700 MB and it will not fit onto a CD-R. Nor does he have a DVD drive at all, so I can not make a DVD-R for him.

Is there anything I can delete to shrink the size of the new WinXP w/ SP2 folder? Can I uninstall/delete languages from some of the directoried (and where and which ones)? It is sitting at about 720 MB right now, so I need to delete about 20-25 MB of stuff... any links to good sites on a streamlined Slipstreamed XP CD?

thanks

This Site might help with reducing the size of the slipstreamed CD image

 

[jackschmittusa]

I slipstreamed SP2 into an original XP version, and ended up with 624mb on the disk.

 

[Slikkster]

What other folders do you have on the slipstreamed disc besides the I386 folder that's causing it to go about 720 megs?

 

[boomerang]

It should fit on a CD with room to spare. You have most likely overlooked something or missed a step.

Here is a guide I have used many times. Maybe a different description of the process will help.

 

[Archman]

Originally posted by: Slikkster
What other folders do you have on the slipstreamed disc besides the I386 folder that's causing it to go about 720 megs?

Okay for the folders it has:

DOCS (80 KB)
DOTNETFIX (26.9 MB)
I386 (492 MB on Disk)
KO_MUI (90 MB Multilingual User Interface Pack)
SUPPORT (12.3 MB)
UXTHEME (208 KB)
VALUEADD (9.94MB)


next it has these files:

MPSetuXP (9.66 MB Media player 9)
README (HTML)
SETUP.EXE
SPNOTES (HTML)
WIN51(file)
WIN51IP (file)
Win51ip.SP1 (SP1 file)

can I delete the KO_MUI pack?

 

[Archman]

Ha, I did a little more reading, and yes I can delete the KO_MUI pack as that is the Korean language pack that we have no idea how it got on there LOL

thanks for listening people

 

[fuzzynavel]

Originally posted by: Archman

Originally posted by: Slikkster
What other folders do you have on the slipstreamed disc besides the I386 folder that's causing it to go about 720 megs?

Okay for the folders it has:

DOCS (80 KB)
DOTNETFIX (26.9 MB)
I386 (492 MB on Disk)
KO_MUI (90 MB Multilingual User Interface Pack)
SUPPORT (12.3 MB)
UXTHEME (208 KB)
VALUEADD (9.94MB)


next it has these files:

MPSetuXP (9.66 MB Media player 9)
README (HTML)
SETUP.EXE
SPNOTES (HTML)
WIN51(file)
WIN51IP (file)
Win51ip.SP1 (SP1 file)

can I delete the KO_MUI pack?

I thought you said it had SP2 on it too....don't see that there!!!

 

[Slikkster]

It's slipstreamed...it's not going to say SP2. In other words, all the SP2 files are already incorporated in the I386 folder.

If you were to buy XP today, it would come on one disk, and would not have a separate SP2 folder.

 

[Archman]

Oh, I should have added that I made another directory and added the SP2 to that directory... it added a similar file to the Win51ip.SP1 (SP1 file), it added:

WinSP2ip.SP2 (SP2 file)

Other than that I realized that the KO_MUI could be deleted as it was taking up 90MB and no one here needs Korean LOL.

Cheers

 

[Slikkster]

I don't think you really meant to say you added SP2 to another folder. When you slipstream, it just adds to SP2 files to your I386 folder. There's no way you could fit an entire separate folder of SP2 to a CD alongside the normal XP CD contents.

Now, when you do slipstream SP2, it creates a new file called Win51ip.SP2 outside of the I386 folder, but that's about it.

Edit: Are you talking about the DVD you made for your computer? If so, that's another story, of course. But a regular CD with XP Pro and then the additional separate SP2 files would amount to at least 750mb.

 

[Archman]

slikkster,

Oooops, I mean to say that I created a whole new WinXP directory on the hard drive that I slistreamed XPSP2 into.

Everything else is just as you mentioned it

Without the KO_MUI which I deleted it amounts to just shy of 700MB on a backup CD. Everything needed is there as we just did a fresh install with this new backup disc, and so far no problems even after installing all of the software he has.

 

[fuzzynavel]

Originally posted by: Archman
Oh, I should have added that I made another directory and added the SP2 to that directory... it added a similar file to the Win51ip.SP1 (SP1 file), it added:

WinSP2ip.SP2 (SP2 file)

Other than that I realized that the KO_MUI could be deleted as it was taking up 90MB and no one here needs Korean LOL.

Cheers

That's the file that i noticed was missing.....been there and done the slipstreaming thing...but i believe that file should be alongside the SP1 file not in a separate directory!

 

[Archman]

Thank you all for your time and input, problem was solver

 

[Archman]

heh... solved