From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:17:16 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:0gkq3vsfh9f08potgmphlvjl9mqr7b6jj1{at}4ax.com...
>
>> You can copy the W2K CD  (the \I386 directory tree is all you need, I
>> believe) to a hard drive, apply SP3 to those installation files, and
>> burn that "slipstreamed" installation back to CD.  Easy
enough, for
>> SPs, after extracting the service pack run
>
>Nope, that doesn't work because SP3 also contains some changes to the
>security settings for registry keys and those won't get updated if you just
>copy the files over the install CD files.

So you are saying that if I "slipstream" an \i386 directory with
the SP3 install command that I posted, and then burn those files to CD, and
then use that CD to install W2K on a new machine, that the registry
security will be different than if I installed from the original CD and
then applied SP3?    Hope that makes sense .

Is so, sounds like a bug.  Microsoft's slipstream process should update
installation config files as well as other source files.

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