Clean install with SP 2

Guzman0,

SP2 includes SP1, so you can go directly from XP to SP2 and be completely up to date.

Rather than installing WinXP from your CD and then patching SP2 I suggest you clean install with a WinXP SP2 integrated CD in one step. You can get instructions here:

http://www.neowin.net/articles.php?action=more&id=94

Enjoy.

There is also Autostreamer, that they've developed to simplify the process even further. It does alol the file transfers for you, you just need to burn the image it creates onto a CD:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=188337&st=0

Cool. One question: Is this useful only to slipstream SP2 into WinXP or can you also slipstream anything else? (i.e. Nero updates into original Nero CD, latest DirectX into WinXP, XP Plus into XP, etc)?

Thanks

No, it's just for the Windows versions and service packs stated in the link I provided.

I have just used it, slipstreaming  WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe into my Dell OEM XP SP1 CD (if you don't have SP1, no need to slipstream that first, SP2 includes it) and with a couple of clicks (you have to tell it where the SP2 file is and where you want the iso file to go, that's it!) and about 15 minutes on my PC (might be longer on slower ones), it produced a 590MB iso. the XPSP2 CD produced (after burning to iso CD image in Easy CD creator 5) is bootable, has all the files, including those updated by SP2.  So I'm pretty confident it would give a good install. I only made the CD for possible future use, will install SP2 directly as an update, rather than clean instal.

You might be interested in Windows UBCD. I have only looked at it briefly, and don't intend to dig deeper at this stage, the simple life for me.

http://www.windowsubcd.com/downloads.htm

Forum at

http://windowsubcd.com/forum/index.php?s=7a44d7d8dfffe0e702e914fdcf28212e&act=idx

 

 

Great! and thanks again

It would be cool to be able to do the same with WinXP and latest DirectX, MS Office and latest patches, Nero and latest updates, etc.