Service Pack Slipstreaming Guide for Windows 2000/2003 and XP
Before you begin, you will need to have a few prerequisites handy.
- Windows installation medium.
- Service pack that you are going to slipstream.
- A couple of gigs of free space on your HD (Don’t worry you can delete everything later.)
* For ease of reading all my examples use C:\ as the HD and D:\ as the CD/DVD drive*
Step 1) Create a folder on your HD and copy the entire contents of your windows installation medium to that folder.
*** Future steps will assume you copied the contents to c:\wincd ***
Step 2) Extract the contents of the service pack to a directory on your HD. The easiest way to do this is to run the service pack executable with the –x switch from a command prompt.
For example: c:\xpsp2.exe -x:c:\servicepack
You will get a message saying “extraction complete” when it is finished.
*** Future steps will assume you extracted the contents to c:\servicepack ***
Step 3) Combine the service pack with the windows copy by navigating to the c:\servicepack\i386\update directory from the command prompt and running the command: update.exe -s:c:\wincd
You will get a message saying “Integrated install has completed successfully” when it is finished.
There you have it! You are done. You now have successfully slipstreamed a service pack into you windows installation. The next step you probably want to take is to turn this into a bootable CD/DVD. That will be covered in this section titled: Creating a bootable Windows 2000/2003/XP CD.
