[dba-Tech] Slipstream WinXP/SP2

You can download SP2 "for IT Professionals and developers" from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-
8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en

it's about 275mb or so, so it might take a while unless you have a T3
connection or something, but that's what I downloaded when it first came
out.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Admin Sparky
Sent: 31 January 2005 17:29
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Slipstream WinXP/SP2


Greetings,

I read an interesting article a month or so ago about creating a WinXP
disk that includes SP2.    The process is called slipstreaming.  I
would like to try this process because in that same magazine I read
that, on average, a new machine need only be connected to the internet
for about 4 minutes before being infected by something.

I have an existing OEM CD sans any SP, but recently purchased a
"sticker-only" license.  I went to M$ in the hopes of downloading SP2,
but to no avail.  It seems, to the casual user, as though M$ will only
deliver the software via the windows update service.

I'm hoping that a few of you network admin types can point me in the
right direction.


Many thanks.

Mark
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