From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in message
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>
>> Hi,
>>
>> tryed http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q296861/. QChain is nice utillty.
>>
>> Also, You could make a fronted to (G)UI installation with checkboxes.
>> You do not bundle upodates, You just make offering for downloading
>> updates
>> from site, XML configuration files and a little VB, VC, WScript + IE
>> forms
>> Dialog with checkboxes :)
>
> The requirement was to not require the MS servers to be available. I
> suppose
> you could make a frontend with checkboxes and burn it and all the patches
> to
> CD but that's not quite the same thing I'm talking about. What I would
> like
> to see is a rollup (just like a service pack) that includes everything
> after
> the last service pack so it's a single download for whoever wants to patch
> their old obsolete NT. It would work just like a service pack except
> giving
> them the interface with checkboxes so they could omit a troublesome patch
> since hotfixes don't go thru the amount of testing that a service pack
> goes
> thru.
>
> Heck, for that matter before MS stops supporting a version of NT, perhaps
> they should just do the final service pack which includes everything. I
> don't understand why they don't do that (why isn't there one for
> NT4workstation).


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because ... You d/l all od them, put them into one folder and link em by QChain.
Or script the same cd with autorun if You wish. I don't see why should they
make one big *.exe ? (nice *.iso would be fine
:), still, anyone can do that with no problems.


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M.

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