MCE 2005 Attended - Need XP SP2 ISO

[tomherbst]

I bought a legal OEM copy of XP MCE 2005 to play with the TV stuff

and right in the middle of the install (a few minutes after it requests

CD 2), it asks for XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD to be put in.

I don't have the CD.

The first time I tried this, I cancelled out and ended up with a brain damaged

install. No networking or IE, for example. At first I just thought it

was the ASUS/3COM GigE driver, but adding the driver made it see the

interface, but it didn't have TCP/IP associated with it.

After this I tried burning the .exe XP SP2 distribution and installing that

on the machine. This did install a bunch of stuff, but the brain damage

seemed to be the same.

Could someone point me to a downloadable XP SP2 .iso so I can burn that?

thanks -

tom

[Drewdatrip]

You can order it driectly from MS HERE

It says that it will take upto 2weeks or somthing like that...but i got mine in a few days.

|Drew|

[SovereignScorn]

Well, I dont think we can share ISOs here, but what you can try to do is download SP2 from microsoft, save it to something like C:\sp2\SP2.exe, then go to the run dialog and run

c:\sp2\sp2.exe /u: /x:c:\sp2\files

After that, burn a cd with the i386 folder in it. That sould solve your problem.

Or possibly, just put youre first cd back in...

[J05E]

tomherbst...XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD is CD1..

CD1 includes Windows XP Professional with integrated SP2.. CD2 includes only CMPNENTS folder..

[tomherbst]

tomherbst...XP Professional Service Pack 2 CD is CD1..

CD1 includes Windows XP Professional with integrated SP2.. CD2 includes only CMPNENTS folder..

Thanks for the help, I have it up and running now.

On ordering from MS - the web page says 4-6 weeks. Even if it was just

a couple of days, the time I have to play with this is over the holiday. Ordering

was a last resort.

On unpacking the files - thanks, I thought there might be a trick like that - I did

unpack it and build a CD.

That said, while it took a bunch of files from the CD I built, some were not

packaged the same and in the end I guessed and put CD1 back in (before the

post explaining that) and it did work.

thanks again!

tom