Slipstreaming Hotfixes

[Perrin.Goldeneyes]

in the relatively recent past (Maybe as far back as last September) I was doing a Search on how to Create a Slipstreamed XP with SP1 bootable CD as I was having alot of problems, it didn't seem to be working like it had with Win2k. I found Several Methods, including one I found in these pages.
     I dont remember who it was, but somebody was working on adding the hotfixes to the slipstreamed CD, and after what seemed like forever (Atleast when reading it, it seemed like it took him/her a long time) they came back with some Detailed Instructions about how to do it. And I'm not talking about running the Executables after the GUI install is complete by editing the txtsetup.sif file or whateever, they were replacing files in the i386 folder based on version # and editing or replacing Cat files, it was an involved process. A bit more than what I wanted at the time, but I filed it away mentally as something to come back to.
     Well now seems like a good time to come back to it, as last night I installed a fresh copy of XP and the machine Shutdown with an RPC error BEFORE THE OOBE FINSHED:angry:. I booted successfully into Safe mode and found the Following:
MSBLAST.EXE, 3 TFTP#### Files, Lovsan.exe and the new NACHI virus/Variant whatever. Does Anybody Remember Seeing, or more preferably, Contributing to the Posts I'm Speaking of. Oh and just to one up this all a notch, I'd like to do this on DVD not CD, but I can wait for that.

Thank you,
Mike Hanson
Reston

[CJTech]

If I am the one that you are talking about the long post and said that it sounds like it takes a long time. I will tell you that if you have broadband, it takes 5-10 minutes. The longest part is downloading the network service pack. The slipstream only takes a few minutes and this is the big point.... it works! It's very easy to do. Here is the post again........


[color=\"red\"]Slipstreaming Windows XP to SP1a:[/color]
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[CJTech]

Opps, forgot to copy. Here you go....

[color=\"red\"]Slipstreaming Windows XP to SP1a[/color]:

[color=\"blue\"]After using this guide, you should be able to install Windows XP with SP1a already integrated onto a computer.

1. In preparation, create a folder like C:\XP. Inside that folder, create 3 subfolders:


CD-ROOT
XP-BOOT
XP-SP1A


2. Copy the entire contents of your original Windows XP CD to C:\XP\CD-ROOT.

3. Download the network version of the service pack and save it to C:\XP [ http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/4...sp1a_en_x86.exe ]

4. Extract the service pack using the following command:

C:\XP\xpsp1a_en_x86.exe /U /X:C:\XP\XP-SP1a

5. Apply the service pack to your original CD image using the following command:

C:\XP\XP-SP1a\UPDATE\UPDATE.EXE /S:C:\XP\CD-ROOT

6. To make the CD Bootable, you'll have to download this Microsoft Boot Image [ http://www.semicoolsoftware.com/downloads/...s/MS-BOOTCD.bin ] and follow these instructions:

Note: These instructions were made for Nero Burning Rom - best burning software hands down. Go get it!

From the New Compilation Window, select CD-ROM (Boot)
Under the BOOT tab, choose 'image file', and browse to the MS-BOOTCD.bin you just downloaded.
Choose no emulation, and change the number of loaded sectors to 4.
Under the LABEL tab, set the following properties:

Volume Label : WXPVOL_EN
System Identifier : WXPVOL_EN
Volume Set : WXPVOL_EN
Publisher : MICROSOFT_CORPORATION
Data Preparer : MICROSOFT_CORPORATION
Application : WXPVOL_EN


Proceed to burn the entire contents of your CD-ROOT folder, and finalize the CD.

7. Your done! Remember to always use the latest version of Nero. [/color] http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[royalbox]

I think he's talking about doing this. It's quite involved. I spent some time automating the process and compressing the files like the originals in the i368 folder are as this makes it easy to overwrite them without having to search and delete the old ones. I posted a detailed guide in another forum that deals with bootable cds, and asked for comments or improvements but no-one bothered, but it works for me  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Perrin.Goldeneyes]

Yeah Royalbox, that looks like that might be it, or close enough anyway.

But A General Question for Everybody Else. In all of the KB Artickles in Slipstreaming hotfixes from Microsoft, they tel you to use CATVER.EXE, yet I can't find it anywhere. In Looking around this forum, I found a brief blurb, the CATVER.EXE is a "FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY" App, but my question is, if that is the case, then why are they telling people to use it?

[Guest_eekarum]

[font=\"Times\"]Here is my solution and it works :

Visit Windows Update , and scan for updates. Choose to install all critical updates if you want. I didn't waste time at oem.microsoft.com looking thru their bulletin board regarding QB documents about their updates. I already have the slipstreamed SP1a disc and since windows update does a better job of researching which hotfixes to install .

OK After the updates finish installing, those update packages will remain leftover in the Temporary Internet Files .

Copy them out of there and put them in a new folder.

You can identify the OS hotfixes by their filenames - anything such as Q######_XXX_YYY_ZZZ_LLL.exe
or
WindowsXP-KB######-XXX-YYY.exe   is a hotfix for the OS itself and not an add-on feature to windows.

other such files beginning with msjavwuXXX.exe , dotnetfxXXX.exe , JS56XXX.exe   are not OS hotfixes. Keep them in a separate folder , as they likely will not work with the script shown below. (the command-line switches are different.)

Anyway, at the end of all these filenames there will be some 25-digit hexnumerical code. leave it as is - doesn't matter whatsoever.

OK here's how I did hotfix installation from within windows setup :
make a .cmd file containing the following : [/font]

Code: [Select]

for %x in (*.exe) do start /wait %x /Q /N /Z &
[font=\"Times\"]Save the file in with your hotfixes folder.

add an entry in your CMDLINES.TXT file which will call that .cmd script at the end of gui-mode setup.

I ran the WINCDMAN script to slipstream SP1a and create the CMDLINES.TXT file and got to the point where it rebuilds the XP .cab files with integrated hotfixes. The script however is in beta and I'm afraid that part didn't work well before. So that's when I just hit enter during that prompt in WINCDMAN and came up with the above method instead.

Good Luck !
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[Guest_eekarum]

[font=\"Times\"]Oh , there is a mistake in the script above.  It should have two % symbols instead of one. Sorry folks.

Here is my .cmd script posted for reference :[/font]

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;INSTALLS.CMD
;------------------
@ ECHO OFF

SET TEXT=Installing Pre-Service Pack 2 critical patches ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
for %%x in (.\scripted.patches\*.exe) do CMD /C %%x /Q /N /Z

SET TEXT=Installing DirectX 9 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
START /HIGH /WAIT ".\DIRECTX\dxsetup.exe" /opk

SET TEXT=Installing Windows Media Player 9 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
START /HIGH /WAIT ".\WMP\MpSetup_WMP9_ENU.exe" /Q /C:"SETUP_WM /Q:A /R:N"

SET TEXT=Installing Internet Explorer 6 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
START /HIGH /WAIT ".\IE\ie6setup.exe" /C:"IE6WZD /S:""#e"" /Q:A /R:N"

SET TEXT=Installing Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition v8.1 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
START /HIGH /WAIT ".\symantec\Symantec.Antivirus.Corporate.Edition.v8.1.0.821.GOLD-mfg.onl.exe" /qb

SET TEXT=Installing Virus Definitions from 2003/08/29 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
START /HIGH /WAIT ".\symantec\20030829-017-x86.exe" /Q

SET TEXT=Installing Sun Java 1_4_2 ...
TITLE %TEXT%
ECHO %TEXT%
CMD /C J2RE-1_4_2-WINDOWS-I586.EXE /s /v/qn"ADDLOCAL=ALL IEXPLORER=1 NETSCAPE6=1 MOZILLA=1 REBOOT=Suppress /L %windir%\j2reSetup.log"

[Mikg]

Was looking for general slipstreaming info and found this thread.

Using the previously downloaded hotfixes is a pretty smart idea!

I've got a question that kinda relates to this whole thing.  We have an office full of Dells.  I have slipstreamed SP1 into a Vol license company owned copy of XP have been using that to do installs, and I think I'd have no problem doing the hotfix slipstream into that, but what I want to do is slipstream all that stuff into the Dell reinstallation CD I'm building from so that we get the Dell customizations back in there.  BTW I did use the Dell CD on one of our boxes recently just to see what would happen and it never asked for a key.  I thought that was odd.

I noticed on the Dell CD that there was a I386\SVCPACK folder with 12 hotfix patches already in there and a SP1.cat file...It was there before I slipstreamed the SP1a update into it and it's still there..

Do I still need this?  Or were those 12 hotfixes incorporated into system files during the slipstreaming process? (I think this Dell CD was made prior to SP1 due to the date of Aug 2001) of all the files.

I want to just stick in the CD and walk away and come back to find it all done.

This forum is a great resource BTW.

Thanks!   http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

Mike

[grep]

I am just beginning to learn about slipstreaming and hot fixes but one concern I has was a question about the service packs.  I have a oem win2k install cd and it appearently has no service packs on it.  I would like to slipstream to sp4, but I am uncertain if I need to first slipstream 1,2,and 3. I am guessing no. I can just install service pack 4.

Next concern is how can I test and see that what I have done actually works.

Pondering this second question has lead me to this possible solution.

Install a virtual PC such as virtual pc 5.2 under my current win2kpro installation and then using a virtual harddisk image. I install my slipstreamed test cd to this virtual pc.  I think I can use a virtual cd to install a test image to the virtual hard disk and wipe the hard disk and reinstall over and over to both quickly and easily test and retest untill I have it right.  Then burn the best results to a real cd-rw so than in the future as hotfixes are added I can add them to the cd-rw, after testing of course on the virtual pc.  Yes I do understand that the virtual pc, the virtual hard disk and the virtual cd will require a whole lot of space, but I have 410 gigs of storage and 768 megs of memory so it should not be a problem.

I have tested this in virtual pc 5.2 under win2k pro, by creating a win98SE image and copying it to a virtual hard disk and installing win98SE sucessfully. The documentation says you can install and run both win2k and winxp this way but I have only tested win98SE at this point.

Opinions? Ideas? welcome

[Guest]

Or you could just burn to a REAL CD and test on a REAL PC http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[dave]

lol http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Guest]

or you could throw fridges at cars and explain to the police that your hat married your letterbox and ran off with your brother throwing nuclear bombs at people while dying of cancer in a car crash.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'<_<\' />