SP1 trying SP2

[jtroydc]

So far I have been able to find all my quick anwsers by searching this great forum, so thanks to all that have taken the time to help others!

My questions is once you build the base_image with say SP1 using risetup, if you try to create a new image with SP2 will it work if SP1 is still your base image? The reason I ask is I made a SP2 disk off our orignal volume license and then used nlite to intergrate all the hot fixes. Once the hot fixes where added it created an ISO which I burned and then copied to the RIS sever then used risetup. Everything copied fine and seemed to be ok.

I then copied my custom default.sif over into the templates on the xpsp2 templates directory making a few changes. Upon PXE boot up I was able to choose SP2 and it started the format and copy of files. However once it hit like 40% it bombed out. Thinking it was a bad copy to the RIS sever I deleted the files and copied them again. Again it bombed at 40% not being able to finish the copy of the files. However if I take the CDROM that nlite made and boot off it I am able to format, copy the files, and finish the windows install. I think I over read some where that once you have the base_image set to SP1 that you can't create a new base image with say SP2. I am not 100% that is the case or if the nlite CD is not going to work. Again any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Joey

[Br4tt3]

I am not a 100% certain I follow u... are u using riprep images or flat images? I assume you are using flat images as you are to talking about "base" - images. Perosnally, I am using "flat" images installation with RIS, and I have a SP1 image and one SP2 on the same RIS servers and there is no problems. I dont know anything about Nlite so I wont go into that. If you have a SP1 image and wanna move to a SP2 image on the RIS server, what you basically have to do is to slipstream the SP2 .exe into a RTM or SP1 version of the WinXP source: < update.exe -S:C: (assuming i386 of WinXP is located on the C: drive) >

I would just remove the SP2 image, and redo the whole thing again. Try to do it manually (as not using third party software) and see if makes any diffrence.

P.S Just got hold of the WDS beta from Microsoft, the upcoming replacer of RIS as we know it. Seems cool.

Best Regards

Tha SausageEater

[jtroydc]

Thanks I will give it a shot

[cluberti]

Just a note - you CAN slipstream and integrate hotfixes into a RIS flat-file source. So if you have an XP SP2 source, when SP3 comes out you can simply slipstream your RIS source and viola, SP3. This doesn't affect RIPrep'ed images, obviously - they stay at whatever SP they were created on.

And WDS is much more admin-friendly than RIS is, as some of you have already found .