SP2 in more than just one .exe file?

[billurie]

In order to do some repair work, Symantec (ugh!)
has instructed me to:

1. Open the Deploy.cab file located in \Support\Tools

folder on your Service Pack 2 CD.

My SP2 CD contains only one big .EXE file.
My SP2 slipstreamed with my XP Installation CD
contains only one big .iso file.

Is there a way for me to obtain SP2 in a form where
I can do as Symantec has asked?


Thanks.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

It should actually say: "your Windows XP with SP2 CD", the original install media.

 

[Nepatsfan]

e0%[email protected],

In order to do some repair work, Symantec (ugh!)
has instructed me to:

1. Open the Deploy.cab file located in \Support\Tools

folder on your Service Pack 2 CD.

My SP2 CD contains only one big .EXE file.
My SP2 slipstreamed with my XP Installation CD
contains only one big .iso file.

Is there a way for me to obtain SP2 in a form where
I can do as Symantec has asked?


Thanks.

As Doug Knox has pointed out, you should be looking on an
actual Windows XP installation CD. If you still can't find the
correct file on your installation CD, it can be downloaded
here:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...91-AC56-4665-949B-BEDA3080E0F6&displaylang=en

After you've opened this file you'll need to extract the
contents to a folder. Here's how:
Open Deploy.cab.
Hit the Ctrl + A keys to select all the files.
Right click on one of the highlighted files.
Select Extract from the menu that pops out.
In the "Select a Destination" dialog, click on Desktop and hit
the "Make new folder" button.
Name the new folder Deploy and hit the Extract button.
You'll get a warning for each file that the publisher cannot be
verified. Keep hitting the save button until you've extracted
all the files.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[billurie]

That's what it should say, Doug, but even if it did,
that would neither help me nor answer my question. My Windows XP
Installation Cd came into being long before SP2 and even long
before SP2. Symantec wants me to have the files from a current
XP+SP2, and I have no such medium.

The next set of advice seems to have some specifics,
which I'm about to study.

Bill Lurie

 

[billurie]

e0%[email protected],


As Doug Knox has pointed out, you should be looking on an
actual Windows XP installation CD. If you still can't find the
correct file on your installation CD, it can be downloaded
here:

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Deployment Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...91-AC56-4665-949B-BEDA3080E0F6&displaylang=en

After you've opened this file you'll need to extract the
contents to a folder. Here's how:
Open Deploy.cab.
Hit the Ctrl + A keys to select all the files.
Right click on one of the highlighted files.
Select Extract from the menu that pops out.
In the "Select a Destination" dialog, click on Desktop and hit
the "Make new folder" button.
Name the new folder Deploy and hit the Extract button.
You'll get a warning for each file that the publisher cannot be
verified. Keep hitting the save button until you've extracted
all the files.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

That was a good link, Nep....I had to download and install the
WGA and that went okay. I got to a listing of popular downloads,
and there was one for Service Pack 1 Deployment Tools and one
for Service Pack 2 Support Tools but none for Service Pack 2
Deployment Tools. Could I ask you to fill in the steps from
that "popular downloads" page appearing, and your advice to
"Open Deploy.cab"?? I don't kno where to go from that page.

 

[Richard Urban]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[billurie]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...be-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en

Hi, Richard. Nice hearing from you again.
That link appears to be to full SP2 Service Pack Installation.
I suspect that if I execute it, it will *install* Sp2.
But I have SP2 installed. All I want is to deploy some of the files...
Like I need deploy.cab .....
Care to 'splain a bit more?

 

[Richard Urban]

You have to download the file before you can extract it contents.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[billurie]

You have to download the file before you can extract it contents.

Richard, your link leads me to:

WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe

which appears to be an installation file for full
SP2 Installation. Something like 279 Megabytes. I
think I'm trying to find KB838080-SP2-Deploy Tools-ENU.cab

Or am I mistaken?

 

[Richard Urban]

Ah, yes!

Follow what Nepatsfan has linked you to.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[billurie]

Richard, your link leads me to:


which appears to be an installation file for full
SP2 Installation. Something like 279 Megabytes. I
think I'm trying to find KB838080-SP2-Deploy Tools-ENU.cab

Or am I mistaken?

Moving right along:

 

[Nepatsfan]

(e-mail address removed),

That was a good link, Nep....I had to download and install
the WGA and that went okay. I got to a listing of popular
downloads, and there was one for Service Pack 1 Deployment
Tools and one for Service Pack 2 Support Tools but none for
Service Pack 2 Deployment Tools. Could I ask you to fill in
the steps from that "popular downloads" page appearing, and
your advice to "Open Deploy.cab"?? I don't kno where to go
from that page.

From the link I provided hit the Continue button at the top of
the page next to where it says "Validation required". On the
next page, hit the Download button next to "Genuine Microsoft
software".

Good luck

Nepatsfan