From: "Geo." 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> 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.

Geo.

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