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Slipstream WinMe (Custom Install CD)
Is it possible to slipstream Windows Me to create a custom install CD that is
already updated with IE 6 SP1 and other Windows Updates? You can do this with certain versions of Office, and I've heard you can do it with Windows XP. What about Windows Me? Does it matter if my CD is oem or retail? Where could I learn about how to create a custom updated Windows Me CD? Having such a CD would make reinstalling Windows easier. The biggest problem I have with installing Windows is that it puts IE 5.5 overtop IE 6, and sometimes Windows won't reinstall, it reinstalls with errors, or it reinstalls with a corrupt browser and no internet access. I'm hoping a slipstreamed CD that already has IE 6 on there will prevent these problems. -- SYSTEM: Windows Me, IE 5.5, 384MB SDRAM PC100/133, DFI PA61 PII Mainboard, Katmai 550MHz Pentium III CPU, Dial-up & DSL Modems. Ethernet Network connected to Win95a, Win98SE, and WinMe machines. |
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Slipstreaming normally relates to the integration of a service pack with
the original RTM distribution. The problem with what you propose, especially in so far as IE6 is involved, is that no service pack has ever, nor will be, issued for Win Me so what you want to do will be extremely difficult if not impossible. Certainly various straightforward hotfixes could be incorporated in such a CD, for example the 290700 patch for system restore, by adding them to the folder containing the cab files but not I believe IE6. Similarly drivers can be added. A useful tool here, although unsupported for Win Me, is MSBatch.inf from the Win 98 Resource Kit. I've never felt tempted to try to make such a CD although it would clearly be of benefit to those who feel the need to reinstall Win Me. Something I have fortunately never felt the need to do. Incidentally I slipstreamed XP SP1 and later XP SP2 into the original RTM XP Pro and the whole exercise takes just a few minutes. The benefits on a clean install are significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than when installing XP then SP1 then SP2. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP SeaSpeeder wrote: Is it possible to slipstream Windows Me to create a custom install CD that is already updated with IE 6 SP1 and other Windows Updates? You can do this with certain versions of Office, and I've heard you can do it with Windows XP. What about Windows Me? Does it matter if my CD is oem or retail? Where could I learn about how to create a custom updated Windows Me CD? Having such a CD would make reinstalling Windows easier. The biggest problem I have with installing Windows is that it puts IE 5.5 overtop IE 6, and sometimes Windows won't reinstall, it reinstalls with errors, or it reinstalls with a corrupt browser and no internet access. I'm hoping a slipstreamed CD that already has IE 6 on there will prevent these problems. |
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Mike
you don't need to install SP1 before installing SP2 (which I'm sure you realise!) -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone! Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Slipstreaming normally relates to the integration of a service pack with the original RTM distribution. The problem with what you propose, especially in so far as IE6 is involved, is that no service pack has ever, nor will be, issued for Win Me so what you want to do will be extremely difficult if not impossible. Certainly various straightforward hotfixes could be incorporated in such a CD, for example the 290700 patch for system restore, by adding them to the folder containing the cab files but not I believe IE6. Similarly drivers can be added. A useful tool here, although unsupported for Win Me, is MSBatch.inf from the Win 98 Resource Kit. I've never felt tempted to try to make such a CD although it would clearly be of benefit to those who feel the need to reinstall Win Me. Something I have fortunately never felt the need to do. Incidentally I slipstreamed XP SP1 and later XP SP2 into the original RTM XP Pro and the whole exercise takes just a few minutes. The benefits on a clean install are significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than when installing XP then SP1 then SP2. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP SeaSpeeder wrote: Is it possible to slipstream Windows Me to create a custom install CD that is already updated with IE 6 SP1 and other Windows Updates? You can do this with certain versions of Office, and I've heard you can do it with Windows XP. What about Windows Me? Does it matter if my CD is oem or retail? Where could I learn about how to create a custom updated Windows Me CD? Having such a CD would make reinstalling Windows easier. The biggest problem I have with installing Windows is that it puts IE 5.5 overtop IE 6, and sometimes Windows won't reinstall, it reinstalls with errors, or it reinstalls with a corrupt browser and no internet access. I'm hoping a slipstreamed CD that already has IE 6 on there will prevent these problems. |
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Oh? So what was a user to do between 2002 (release of SP1) and 2004
(release of SP2)? -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Noel Paton wrote: Mike you don't need to install SP1 before installing SP2 (which I'm sure you realise!) |
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That's not installing SP2, Mike - especially on a clean install!
SP2 will install directly onto an RTM Windows with no problems -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone! Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Oh? So what was a user to do between 2002 (release of SP1) and 2004 (release of SP2)? -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Noel Paton wrote: Mike you don't need to install SP1 before installing SP2 (which I'm sure you realise!) |
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I'm sorry but I don't have a clue what you are referring to here Noel.
Between 2002 and 2004 XP SP2 was not available only SP1 hence I and countless others slipstreamed SP1 into RTM. Doing this results in a much smaller installed file base if then used to install XP rather than installing SP1 over RTM, just as SP2 when slipstreamed into RTM makes for a smaller installation than RTM plus SP1 (which is what many users will have prior to August 2004), and then SP2. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Noel Paton wrote: That's not installing SP2, Mike - especially on a clean install! SP2 will install directly onto an RTM Windows with no problems |
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Mike -
the final sentence in your original post reads.... "The benefits on a clean install are significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than when installing XP then SP1 then SP2." The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install SP1 prior to installing SP2. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone! Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... PS, BTW I'm not referring here to the SP uninstall folder(s) but rather the total size of the various dll caches. Those created when installing using slipstream media are far smaller than when installing from RTM and then SP1 and then SP2 (as will have happened for anyone running XP prior to August 2004) or if a new user were to install XP RTM today followed by SP2. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Mike M wrote: I'm sorry but I don't have a clue what you are referring to here Noel. Between 2002 and 2004 XP SP2 was not available only SP1 hence I and countless others slipstreamed SP1 into RTM. Doing this results in a much smaller installed file base if then used to install XP rather than installing SP1 over RTM, just as SP2 when slipstreamed into RTM makes for a smaller installation than RTM plus SP1 (which is what many users will have prior to August 2004), and then SP2. That's not installing SP2, Mike - especially on a clean install! SP2 will install directly onto an RTM Windows with no problems |
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The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install
SP1 prior to installing SP2. Noel, Something which at no time did I say or even suggest. Read my posts again. I was extolling the virtue of installing (clean) from a slipstreamed XP CD and quite clearly, to me at least, stating that such an install leads to a considerable reduction in the size of the dllcache against, for example, that seen by those who installed XP (in say 2001) and then SP1 (in 2002) and then SP2 (in 2004) or even those who installed from an XP RTM CD yesterday and then installed SP2 today. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Noel Paton wrote: Mike - the final sentence in your original post reads.... "The benefits on a clean install are significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than when installing XP then SP1 then SP2." The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install SP1 prior to installing SP2. |
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All of which I agree with, Mike.
-- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj A Happy Xmas, and a Merry New Year to everyone! Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install SP1 prior to installing SP2. Noel, Something which at no time did I say or even suggest. Read my posts again. I was extolling the virtue of installing (clean) from a slipstreamed XP CD and quite clearly, to me at least, stating that such an install leads to a considerable reduction in the size of the dllcache against, for example, that seen by those who installed XP (in say 2001) and then SP1 (in 2002) and then SP2 (in 2004) or even those who installed from an XP RTM CD yesterday and then installed SP2 today. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Noel Paton wrote: Mike - the final sentence in your original post reads.... "The benefits on a clean install are significant for XP as the dll cache is several hundred MB smaller than when installing XP then SP1 then SP2." The implication is (at least to me) that it is necessary to install SP1 prior to installing SP2. |
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