Help with slipstreaming SP2.

[David56]

I've downloaded the Network Installation for SP2. I attempt to slipstream it, but I get the following error message;

This Service Pack cannot be integrated into a destination that also has integrated Software Updates.

Consult the Service Pack documentation for more details about supported integration scenarios.

I seem to have to remove Service Pack 1a from my Windows XP disc, but how?

Can you please keep the answer as simple as possible, I'm new to all this and not very computer illiterate!

[Lost Soul]

how are you slipstreaming it... manually ?

[David56]

No, I'm using the Automated way, following the guide on this site. It gets upto Extracting Files, the bar goes to the end, then I get the error message I mentioned in my previous post.

[oioldman]

Welcome,

A good place to start may be

http://unattended.msfn.org

as it wil show pretty much all you need to know.

If your trying to slipstream SP2 into a Dell CD, you will need to make mods first. Can't remember but a search will get you the answers.

Otherwise you

Copy your XPSP1a cd to a folder called XP on your c:

then click start | run and type

"<FULLPath to SP2 file>" /integrate:c:\xp

and it will then slip it in as expected

And that's the start of a habit that can take over as you wish to get your UA CD just right.

[Mike_Wilson]

use nlite

[David56]

How am I meant to search for it, since I cannot search with the words 'Dell, Mods, or CD'?

[Lost Soul]

is this a disk that you made your self with the sp1 slipstreamed or did this disk come with your pc ?

[oioldman]

A quick search using

+dell +sp2

revealed this. User said it worked for him, so try it ou

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32499&hl=

I don't think nlite will work for Dell CD's as they are a tad different to retails or others, but you could try.

[David56]

Yes it is a Dell CD, and yes the disc came with my computer.

[David56]

What does OEM mean?

[David56]

Quote: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32499&hl=

I don't think nlite will work for Dell CD's as they are a tad different to retails or others, but you could try.

I don't have a retail XP cd for that to work, just the one that came with my computer.

[oioldman]

You can use the one that came with your computer, you just need to use the instructions given previously to slipstream in SP2 to it.

Then go to http://unattended.msfn.org which will show what else you can do.

OEM = Original Equipment Manufacturer

[David56]

Thanks. I'm about to start doing this..

QUOTE(sleepnmojo @ Nov 17 2004, 09:02 AM)

Check to see if they have any hotfixes on the cd. If they do, you need to take them out before doing the upgrade.

Look for a svcpack or hotfixes folder in the i386 folder. Just delete it. Should fix the problem.

I did this a while ago with a Dell OEM CD. Like sleepnmojo said, delete the hotfixes. There will also be a bunch of files in the I386 folder that need to be deleted - they all begin with either KB###### or Q###### (# indicating the wildcard is a number). You also have to clean up svcpack.inf to remove references to the hotfixes, and then makecab the cleaned svcpack.inf back to svcpack.in_. From my experience, SP2 won't update the files if svcpack.inf is expanded, but once it's cabbed, it will. There may also be some stuff in the $OEM$ file that needs cleaned.

I THINK this is what I did, I'm at work now and can't remember exactly...I can look when I get home.

Okay?

[oioldman]

Seems fine, but not having a Dell CD I can't say yes or no, but seems to work fine for others.

[David56]

I have no files that begin with KB and have 6 digits in them. But I do with Q, so I'll remove them, and see if it now works.