I need to create a winXP-SP2SP3 disk, but right now, the XP half of my
computer is not working and I only have a win98 and a win2000 SP4
computer.

Will Autostreamer run on win2000, or only winXP?

If it is supposed to run on win2000, it's not, and I can use some
help.

At some point in the Autostreamer process, I think when it starts to
merge the files, I get a message that the program has been stopped,
and a log entry produced. (There is a long log entry in drwatson.log,
but it's not enough to help me.)

At that point, instead of using autostreamer, I tried to do it "by
hand" with DOS commands according to this webpage, which I may have
learned about here:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...slipstream.asp

There is no trouble extracting the files from the Service Pack a la:
cd \
cd sp2
xpsp2.exe -x:c:\sp2 [ENTER]

I checked and now there are loads of files in the C:\sp2 folder.

Then the instructions say and I do:
cd i386 [ENTER]
cd update [ENTER]
update -s:c:\xp [ENTER]

And when I try to run update.exe in the line above I get the very same
message I got with Autostreamer.

So I suspect Autostreamer either runs the update.exe program that it
finds in the Service Pack, or it has the same program embedded in the
Autostreamer program. Probably the first choice because as years go
on, update.exe might be changed by MS.

Any ideas what I should do next?

This didn't help, so maybe you can skip it, but for completeness:
Then I thought, well maybe the update.exe from winxp sp2 won't run on
win2000, so I dl'd SP4 for win2000, extracted the files, renamed
update.exe as update2000.exe, inserted it in the XP SP2\i386\update
folder, the same where the original update.exe is, repeated the steps
above except in the last step, I ran update2000.exe instead of
update.exe. But I got an even longer error message about an invalid
entry point in Kernel32. This surprises me since "update2000.exe"
was part of win2000 SP4 and my win2000 computer is running SP4,
according to msinfo32.exe.

Thanks a lot even if you just read this far.

And btw, is there a later version of Autostreamer than ver 1.033?

I've dl'd it four times from different places and the length is always
866,703 . When I install it, I think the version number is truncated,
because it says 1.0 and even in the online screen images for a site
that offers 1.033, it says Autostreamer 1.0 in the screen image.

Try a different tool:

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/slipstreamsp3
Slipstream Service Pack 3 Into Windows XP [EeeUser Eee PC Wiki]

Or do it the manual way:

http://www.derangedcoder.net/program...WindowsXP.html
Slipstreaming Windows XP using basic, freely available tools

John

mm wrote:
> And btw, is there a later version of Autostreamer than ver 1.033?
>
> I've dl'd it four times from different places and the length is always
> 866,703 . When I install it, I think the version number is truncated,
> because it says 1.0 and even in the online screen images for a site
> that offers 1.033, it says Autostreamer 1.0 in the screen image.

mm wrote:
> And btw, is there a later version of Autostreamer than ver 1.033?
>
> I've dl'd it four times from different places and the length is always
> 866,703 . When I install it, I think the version number is truncated,
> because it says 1.0 and even in the online screen images for a site
> that offers 1.033, it says Autostreamer 1.0 in the screen image.

Another program for slipstreaming, is NLite from nliteos.com.

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/part1.html

The NLite requirements are here.

http://www.nliteos.com/guide/before.html

I used Autostreamer years ago, before I got WinXP, so I think
I ran it on Win2K, to do a slipstream for Win2K. I made
a Win2K SP4 installer with it. Then burned a CD with Nero.

When I hold my mouse over the "AutoStreamer.exe" file, it
says the file version is 1.0.33.1, 11/1/2005 1:24PM, 846KB.
Size is 866,703 bytes.

Paul