Mike, 2002 Edition is XP RTM. I believe there were one or two minor
differences - eg, to do with activation period? - that warranted the 2002
designation. Possibly a later IE6.0SP1 subversion too? Anyway, I got mine
about 2 months prior to SP1.


Shane


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
OK, 2002 Edition would mean that you have XP with SP1 slipstreamed into
it. SP2 was released in August 2004 and probably not available as
slipstream media until October or maybe even November. That your media
already includes SP1 does not, of course, mean that you cannot now build
in to it SP2.

I've now had the opportunity to run
XPSP2.exe /integrate:drive/path
on a system running Win Me and you are right to be concerned as the
command fails. Running XPSP2.exe (or WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe)
fails when run on Win Me due to it requiring a different version of
ntdll.dll than that included with Win Me.

Do you perhaps have access to a friend's or even work PC running wither
W2K or XP that you could use to create the slipstreamed file set?

Best of luck with whichever route you choose to follow.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



"looneytunesverizone.net" "looneytunesverizone.net" wrote

I purchased XP Home at Comp USA about June or July last year. I
believe that was before SP2 was released. Also, the media carton and
packaging says 2002 Edition. It seems I might have an original CD
that may not even contain SP1 since I don't know the SP1 release
date. Your thoughts on how to do this make sense, even though I did
not want to wipe and reinstall a lot of applications. If I follow, it
would seem best to install my new hardware, upgrade to XP Home, not
activate, create the slipstream disk and then follow up with the
clean install. That ought to keep me busy for quite awhile.

Thanks again for all the help. When I finally get to doing it all, I
will post back and let you know the results.