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to: Geo.
from: John Cuccia
date: 2003-02-02 11:25:02
subject: Re: Distributing updates by ISO image

From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 09:17:44 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>All I'm trying to change is the complexity of staying up to date that is
>easy to understand for the users and easy to maintain for MS.

I understand that.

>
>It should be obvious to everyone that it's easier to deal with a service
>pack than to deal with each fix separately. It should also be obvious to
>everyone that a CD with W2Ksp3 on it is easier to deal with than two CD's
>one with W2Ksp0 and one with SP3.

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

        Update -s:    Integrate Service pack files into 

That doens't work for hotfixes.   I don't think it works for  NT4,
either.

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