From: "Geo" 

"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in
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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).

Geo.

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