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winxp slipstream 2 -- boot loader

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LordSnailz

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My dvd burner is giving me tons of headache and it's about time I rebuild my HD. So I decided to do a new install wiht SP2. In order to get a bootable disk, I need to extract the boot loader from the cd, Microsoft Corporation.img.

Any change one of you guys might have it?

TIA!
 
Originally posted by: Slogun
Better yet, rather than slipstreaming manually, do it with autostreamer.
You won't need to deal with any Microsoft Corporation.img
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this is intended to install all the updates with sp1 etc once installing winxp on a HD correct?(never slipstreamed before)i would like to this since i have a copy of winxp without pre-sp1 in it (will also like to add other updates) how can i do this?

thanks in advance!
 
That's right.

Now that SP2 is out all you need is your WinXP CD(can be pre-SP1) and the SP2 files.
SP2 brings WinXP completely up to date.

And here's a thread with some comments about 2 programs that do slipstreaming for you.
 
ok i have a bare winxp cd with no pre SP1 or 2

but i have SP1&2 on a CD that i ordered from Microsoft, do i still need to slipstream?
 
You don't need to, no.

I recently received the SP2 CD from microsoft myself last week.
If you take another look at it you will see that it is referred to as just SP2, not SP2 + SP1.

Microsoft service packs are cumulative, you only install the latest one.

Now, you can just install the SP2 CD on your machine as an "update."
Some people (like me) had some problems after doing that.

Alternatively, you can do a clean install of WinXP, then install the SP2 CD.

And lastly, you can make a slipstreamed CD comprised of the contents of your WinXP CD plus your SP2 CD. Makes a clean install of WinXP/SP2 a one-step install. That's what autostreamer will do for you (it automatically makes an iso image of WinXP/SP2 which you then burn to CD to make a bootable WinXP/SP2 CD.
Got that?
 
yes i understood thanks i may slipstream if it makes it much simpler
ok so sp2 and sp1 can be on together on the same machine or you pick one?
also what do you mean by installing SP2 as an update?isn't there just one plain method of installing it?
thanks in advance!
 
Here's an example:

Let's say 3 years ago I installed Winxp.
1 year later installed Sp1.

Now I can install SP2. WinXp has benn "updated" with SP1 and then SP2.

However, if you wipe your compuer clean (clean install), you want to install WinXP and SP2.
You don't need SP1 because all the patches that were in SP1 are also contained in SP2(that's what cumulative means).

If I've been running WinXP with Sp1 for the past year and I now pop that SP2 CD into my system and install it, it is an "update." (and that doesn't always work well).

However if I take my machine running WinXP/SP1, wipe it clean (format) and install WinXP first and then SP2, or just install the two together from a slipstreamed CD, those both are examples of a "clean install", as opposed to an "update."

Clean installs are always preferable to an update.
Many of us at AT reformat our drives and clean install our operating systems/service packs annually or maybe more often than that.
 
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