Need Windows XP Pro Hotfixes for nLite CD/DVD 2

[kjv1611]

I am trying to scrounge together all the WinXP hotfixes for adding to an nLite disk I'm trying to build finally for the first time. I've seen where a couple of people have what they call "post SP2 hotfix packs" or similar. But from what some have said online, it seems those packages may actually be dangerous to use.

Does anyone have any experience with one of these that they can testify to being safe, or can anyone point me to the easiest way to go to microsoft.com and find a download page or an FTP site to just download ALL available patches that are "post PS2"? I don't want to hunt and peck for each one, since there are so many, but if I can find them on one HTML page, or either one FTP site, I'd be fine with that.

Thanks for any advice/suggestions...

Oh, one other thought - since I keep my current system up to date with Windows anyway, is there a way to find the appropriate files on my local PC?

I appologize if this seems just too low-level a question to be asking, but it's my first time attempting to actually make a slipstream Windows CD - something I've wanted to do for a really really long time.

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[cdogg]

Well after I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2, I made a note of all the updates that it wanted to download from Microsoft by their KB number.

Then at the main Windows Update site, choose "Use administrator options" over to the left. You'll see the link for "Windows Update Catalog" appear to the right. Click that. On the next page, choose to use the new Microsoft Update Catalog Technical Preview. This makes it easy to search for and download updates by their KB number.

It can be a tedious process, but once you get them all you'll be glad you did it. I think I spent like 2-3 hours.

~cdogg
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[BadBigBen]

Hola, I've used nLite with update packs before, and can not say that they are dangerous (at least the ones I used)... Here is a little tutorial and if you look a bit closer...

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/nlite.html

on the german website of the C'T magazine, they supply a tool (CT Updater), which uses WSUS and can download Critical, Important and possible Moderate updates for a variety of Windows Flavors(2003, XP, 2000, ENG and GER), from the MS servers...

http://www.heise.de/ct/projekte/offlineupdate/

alternative to CDOGG's way of downloading the updates, I sometimes use the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx

Ben

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[kjv1611]

Wow! I'll have to look into the various options. Doing it the long way may be the best in one way, as far as being able to pick out the specific updates.

However, being that it takes a couple or few hours just to do that, I'm thinking a little more about just trying one of the packs, at least to try..

I'll hopefully get around to some of this over the weekend, and post back with any progress.

Thanks for the information and references!

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[cdogg]

Yeah, back when I was doing it to add to nLite, I saw Ryan's website and considered it. However after checking his update pack page, I noticed that there were a lot updates in his list I didn't need (such as language packs, Media Center updates, etc) which is why I just compiled my own to save space. It's nice though that most of what you'd need is right there.

Good luck...

~cdogg
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[kjv1611]

Well, I did successfully build an nLite CD - well burned it to DVD on accident - a waste, considering it was under 600 megs - oh well.

I also tested the first run on a Virtual Machine. It went flawlessly, except it couldn't load 2 files (which were from an add-on) during setup. But, I rebuild the disk again - didn't burn this time - and I plan on trying it without most of the addins that I tried the first time.

I suppose the Ryan update package worked okay, but I don't know yet. Also, I didn't get any errors from the drivers being on the image/disk.

However, I just hope that Windows uses the mainboard drivers correctly with the next build. I may need to go ahead and made the SATA and RAID driver disks ahead of time, just in case it doesn't work out perfectly, considering it'll be different hardware.

I set it up as an unattended install, and loaded SP2, the update package, Abit mobo drivers, and I think I still left in one or two "add-ons" from the RyanVM stuff.

One big question I want to figure out is if there is some way I can slipstream an additional file or two or whatever it takes from my other Windows CD so that I don't have to "insert previous windows cd" for the install. My Windows XP Pro copy is an upgrade retail version, so it always asks for a previous Windows CD if it's a fresh install (such as after DBANing my hard drive, or either putting it all together as a new system, or maybe changing RAID configurations.. I plan on searching around a bit to see what info I can find.

So far, I must say that I really do like the whole nLite thing. I should've tried it a long time ago!

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