For Pity's Sake, MS, GET ON WITH IT!

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Are you really that much of a baby?

jimmuh said:
Hey, Mr. head-not-in-the-sand, read the OP. Did you see the word "network"
in
there? That's the version of the service pack that's used for
slipstreaming.
I've had the CD since the hour it was posted. That's not the version I
really
need the most.

Mark said:
That guy must have his head in the sand. I'm not even a subscriber and I
knew that.

Tom [Pepper] Willett said:
Technet and MSDN subscribers have had the download available for a
couple
of
weeks. Look under the MSDN Subscriptions Page, and it's under Most
Popular
Downloads.

: Look, I've been waiting for an official download link for the network
: installation version of SP3 for quite a long blasted time. I've been
a
: Technet Plus subscriber for years, and I can't believe subscribers
have
to
: wait for this download until EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE PLANET CAN GET IT!
:
: Guess what, MS -- I think subscribers here can probably figure out
that
they
: shouldn't install SP3 on systems that run your point of sale
software.
Give
: me the service pack! I am a sysadmin, and I need the network
installation
: version so I can prepare an integrated installation package and get
some
new
: installations done!
:
: GET ON WITH IT!
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Yes!

But, if you really want an explanation of what was going on in my tiny mind
-- you can find most of it in my reply to Robert Pendell.

You see, I'm just peripherally concerned with maintaining Windows systems.
I've worked with them for many years, but the vast majority of my work is
done with very different operating systems and equipment. I had never, until
SP3 for WinXP, downloaded the .iso version of the service pack. I've ALWAYS
used the network installer, and I've always been able to download just that
version. To date this time MS only offered (at least from what I can find)
the CD image.

I got it when it was first released. But ALL information I had on creating
slipstreams said that I had to have the network installer. I was oblivious to
the fact that creating the CD image would leave me with the network installer
I needed right there on the disc.

So, I did have my head in the sand. And you didn't. Are we clear?

I was just venting steam because I had called my Network Services division
(I'm not in IT, actually.) twice and used Concierge chat twice yesterday, and
no one gave me that nice little tidbit of information -- that the CD image I
told them I had already downloaded contained exactly what I needed.

In fact, the various sets of instructions I've seen for slipstreaming
service packs with Windows just say to use the network installer. They don't
say anything about the fact that the blooming thing is sitting right there in
the CD image. I've never created a service pack CD, so I just didn't realize.
 
Yeah, sorry, Ken. I was quite aware this is a peer-to-peer newsgroup. I was
just venting my spleen. Fortunately, someone (Robert Pendell) looked a little
closer at my diatribe and realized that I could get exactly what I wanted
with very little trouble.

I do think that it's kind of odd that Technet has always (IME) seemed to
post the network installer as well as the CD image before this. My lack of
experience with the CD image is, I admit, incongruous and funny.

What's funnier is that none of my IT people (I'm a bindery / printing
production sysadmin, not a Windows syadmin per se) and neither of the two
Concierge support people at Technet with whom I discussed this seemed to be
aware that the network installer was already within my grasp. They knew I had
the CD image.
 
OK

jimmuh said:
Yes!

But, if you really want an explanation of what was going on in my tiny
mind
-- you can find most of it in my reply to Robert Pendell.

You see, I'm just peripherally concerned with maintaining Windows systems.
I've worked with them for many years, but the vast majority of my work is
done with very different operating systems and equipment. I had never,
until
SP3 for WinXP, downloaded the .iso version of the service pack. I've
ALWAYS
used the network installer, and I've always been able to download just
that
version. To date this time MS only offered (at least from what I can find)
the CD image.

I got it when it was first released. But ALL information I had on creating
slipstreams said that I had to have the network installer. I was oblivious
to
the fact that creating the CD image would leave me with the network
installer
I needed right there on the disc.

So, I did have my head in the sand. And you didn't. Are we clear?

I was just venting steam because I had called my Network Services division
(I'm not in IT, actually.) twice and used Concierge chat twice yesterday,
and
no one gave me that nice little tidbit of information -- that the CD image
I
told them I had already downloaded contained exactly what I needed.

In fact, the various sets of instructions I've seen for slipstreaming
service packs with Windows just say to use the network installer. They
don't
say anything about the fact that the blooming thing is sitting right there
in
the CD image. I've never created a service pack CD, so I just didn't
realize.
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Yeah, sorry, Ken. I was quite aware this is a peer-to-peer newsgroup. I was
just venting my spleen.
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OK, I understand. But let me just add that venting *here* accomplishes
nothing but getting others POed. I'm glad you got helped, but let me
point out that for the future, your chances of getting the help you
need would be much better if you would ask politely instead of
venting.
 
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