Can you burn Windows updates to disk?

[Apex]

yes.

[Dave_07]

Cheers, Apex.

[Apex]

np

[Matt1eD]

Paul that's some beautiful slipstreaming you've got there.... a real work of art.

[noah]

if like myself you havent got the skill to make windows do an auto install you can use this proggy called nlite which will trim down your disc and put sp2 and any raid drivers in it and then make you a bootable iso.

i managed to get rid of all the unecessary drivers in xp and get it to start in the correct res and in classic with a black backgound, it even put in the uxtheme.dll so i can use my skins! reduced the xp iso by about 40%.

[FatRakoon]

I have just this morning doen my latest SP2 SLipstreamed CD to test, and I am runnign it right now.

I have all my usual drivers, and system tools etc all installed for me, my latest attempt, was to also setup my internet, and restore my EMails, etc, and it worked.

This particular install, I started at almost exactly at 7pm earlier on,and by 7:20 I was back on the internet, and fully loaded up.

I did a Windows update, and I was presented with 18 critical updates for Windows??? - So, even if yo udo a Windows SP2 Slipstreamed CD like I did, you would still need to update.

No one has mentioned this, but when the update stores the files onto your HD when it downloads them, when they install them, they get deleted.

They will be stored onto your largest partition, or at least the partition with the most free space, in WUTEMP.

When it updates them, try to copy the WUTEMP file as soon as they have finished downloading, cos they install very quickly and then get wiped.

Or at least they do on mine.

[Paul Adams]

I did a Windows update, and I was presented with 18 critical updates for Windows??? - So, even if yo udo a Windows SP2 Slipstreamed CD like I did, you would still need to update.

If you download the individual hotfixes in the list when you visit Windows Update then you can integrate (most of) those into the OS install in the same way that SP2 is slipstreamed.
The "/integrate" flag is used to update the source files and make an entry (I believe) into I386\SVCPACK\HFINT.DAT and indicate that the KB is installed and what files it updated.
(Some of the hotfixes don't integrate along with others occasionally, when they replace a subset of previously integrated file versions.)

Another method is to have the hotfix EXEs on the install media and have the install process call them post-installation.

www.msfn.org go into a lot of detail about both of these methods if you are interested.