May 13, 200818 yr Hello all,Can I put sp2 and sp3 in hfslip hf folder together? Or do I have to slipstream it before I put sp3 in? John
May 13, 200818 yr You can include as many SP installers in the HF folder as you want, but HFSLIP will only use the latest -- and only if it's still applicable.
May 13, 200818 yr would be a huge waste of time though service packs are always cumulative and include the functionality of all prior service packs so you only have to put in the latest one and you're good to go
May 13, 200818 yr I don't see how. If you still had SP2 from before and now put in SP3, you'd be wasting more time DELETING the SP2 installer...
May 14, 200818 yr Author I read somewhere that you have to have a service pack before applying sp3 is this right? John
May 14, 200818 yr no, i manually slipstreamed sp3 on a copy of xppro gold (SP0) that I had just to see how much difference in size there would be between that and if sp3 were slipstreamed on a copy of xpsp2. slipstreamed just fine with no errors (though i didn't install it to see if it worked fine). size difference was negligible - about 8-10 MB Edited May 14, 200818 yr by johndoe74
May 14, 200818 yr When slipstreaming the service pack it doesn't matter, but you need at least SP1 when installing it normally (though I forgot if that was just for MCE or for all versions of Windows XP).
May 14, 200818 yr you have to have at least sp1a to install sp3. dont matter what sp you have if you slipstreaming and if you using mce you cant intergrate it right or media center will downgrade and break features and if you manually install it will also break features. for mce the only option is to allow automatic updates take care of the job.
May 22, 200818 yr Microsoft TechNet Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)General Requirements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------To install SP3, your computer must meet the hardware and operating system requirements listed below. In addition, your computer must at least be running Windows XP with Service Pack 1 installed.We recommended that you have Service Pack 2 installed before installing SP3. You can download Service Pack 2 at the Windows XP Service Pack 2 website. Read all the posts written (mid March) by Chris Keroack [MSFT], Chris Keroack, Release Manager, Windows XP Service Pack 3 in this thread here. This is a definitive discussion of what can and cannot be done with SP0. My conclusion: It is technically OK (although not suppoted by Microsoft) to integrate SP3 into SP0, and install from the resulting bootable CD. However, if you install from a SP0 source, you should then install SP2, and then SP3.If your source CD is SP2, you might find this thread interesting Integrating SP3 (written in Apr, before SP3 final) that discusses integrating SP3 into SP0 or SP2. It includes a batch file to intregate SP3 into SP2 and cleanup SP2 leftovers in one step, doesn't use nLite. Edited May 22, 200818 yr by Lilla
May 22, 200818 yr I don't really see what's so confusing about it. Slipstreaming is not the same as installing.
June 1, 200818 yr Slipstream SP3 into whatever source you have, it dosen't matter, but a SP0 source will be cleanest integrated i.e. contain fever redundant files afterwards...There's no need for slipstreaming both SP2 + SP3 into a SP0 source, but anyhow, it's not an issue when using HFSLIP, since HFSLIP intelligently only slipstreams the latest SP and ignores any previous ones if present...It's when not slipstreaming, but installing, that you'll need a SP1(+) source, but that's unrelated to HFSLIP...
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