Slipstream SP2 into 64bit WindowsXP using PC running 32bit Windows?

[Noozer]

I'm getting ready to install Windows XP 64bit. My PC is currently running
32bit Windows XP Pro with SP2.

I want to create a slipstream disc. On this disc I want my Windows XP Pro
64bit OS, SP2 for 64bit XP, and the OEM drivers for my SATA controller.

My PC has no floppy drive, and Windows does not support my SATA controller
natively. There are no IDE drives in this PC.

I'm trying to slipstream SP2, but when I run the update command to add SP2
to my installation files it complains that it is not a valid Win32
application.

C:/XP64 currently contains the files from the 64bit XP installation disk
C:/SP2 currently contains all the files extracted from the 64bix XP SP2
download

The command I'm failing on is "C:\SP2\AMD64\UPDATE\UPDATE.EXE -s:C:\XP64".

I've downloaded SP2 twice in the .EXE version, as well as the .ISO version.
It always does the same thing.

How can I generate a slipstream disc?

Thanks!

 

[thecreator]

Hi Noozer,

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html

 

[Logan]

It is because the exe for the x64 SP2 package is compiled for a 64 bit
platform.You might be able to get around this...

Download both SP2 archives from Microsoft. Using a program like WinZip or
WinRAR extract each to a folder descriptive of it's contents. Once they are
both extracted take the main exe from the 32 bit version and replace the 64
bit version with it. It should be called update.exe or something like that.
Once that is done you can then run the command like normal against the OS
install files and it should slip stream the SP into it.

My guess as to why this (might) work...

The update.exe file does nothing more than process the directives layed out
for it in the file "update.inf" that is in the same directory as update.exe
(a subfolder in the place you extracted the service pack named... update). I
used a process similar to this to update the install source files for a copy
of Windows Server 2003 for the Itanium (IA64) a while ago, and it worked
then. However if this does not work you may need to try the SP2 update.exe
for 32 bit server 2003 since XP x64 was actually based on that code base and
not the code based that Windows XP Pro (RTM) was built from.

Note... you cannot just copy the files to the directory since i am sure
there are some backend files that need to get updated with the timestamp and
whatnot of the updated files