Slipstreaming significantly faster?

[Timothy Daniels]

Is "slipstreaming" SP2 with the installation CD for WinXP
significantly faster than just installing WinXp and then
running the SP2 CD? I have only one machine to do this
on, and I was wondering if the time saved was worth
learning the slipstream procedure and burning a CD
since I already have SP2 on a CD from Microsoft.

*TimDaniels*

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

Is "slipstreaming" SP2 with the installation CD for WinXP
significantly faster than just installing WinXp and then
running the SP2 CD? I have only one machine to do this
on, and I was wondering if the time saved was worth
learning the slipstream procedure and burning a CD
since I already have SP2 on a CD from Microsoft.

*TimDaniels*

The answer should be rather obvious. You save the time it takes to install
the SP2 CD on your machine, plus you can use the SP2 CD for repair
installations. If you install from a pre-SP2 CD, then install SP2, you
cannot run a repair installation or a repair console from the windows CD.

Bobby

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Is "slipstreaming" SP2 with the installation CD for WinXP
significantly faster than just installing WinXp and then
running the SP2 CD? I have only one machine to do this
on, and I was wondering if the time saved was worth
learning the slipstream procedure and burning a CD
since I already have SP2 on a CD from Microsoft.

Hi,

I absolutely recommend you to slipstream SP2 into your OS CD.

Use AutoStreamer or nLite to make the process pretty easy.

AutoStreamer:

Create a Slip Stream version of Windows XP
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/slipstream.htm

nLite:

Universal Windows Slipstreaming and Bootable CD Guide
http://www.msfn.org/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=49

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Is "slipstreaming" SP2 with the installation CD for WinXP
significantly faster than just installing WinXp and then
running the SP2 CD? I have only one machine to do this
on, and I was wondering if the time saved was worth
learning the slipstream procedure and burning a CD
since I already have SP2 on a CD from Microsoft.

Whether or not it's faster in the large context depends on how often you
will use it. You have to take the time to get a tool to create the
slipstream, or learn how to do it manually. Then you have to do the
slipstream. Both of those things take time. If you never use the
slipstreamed CD then it wasn't faster to do that. However if you do use
it, it is significantly faster as during the single install you get both
Windows XP and SP2 installed simultaneously. So from that standpoint, the
install process is as much faster as it would take to just install SP2 on
your PC.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

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[R. McCarty]

Also, doing a "Slipstreamed" install lowers the disk space on the XP
partition since there won't be a "ServicePackFiles" with the ~500+
Megabytes of updated content.

 

[Rick]

Not quite accurate. If you have a pre SP2 CD then you must un install
SP2 and perform the repair then re install SP2.

Rick

 

[Plato]

Is "slipstreaming" SP2 with the installation CD for WinXP
significantly faster than just installing WinXp and then
running the SP2 CD? I have only one machine to do this
on, and I was wondering if the time saved was worth
learning the slipstream procedure and burning a CD
since I already have SP2 on a CD from Microsoft.

I like just using the MS XP SP2 Upgrade CD to get XP w/sp2 on PCs.

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Not quite accurate. If you have a pre SP2 CD then you must un install
SP2 and perform the repair then re install SP2.

Not at all. There is no need to uninstall SP2 before doing a repair
install with a pre-SP2 CD.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.