Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.general (
More info?)
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:11:10 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
<DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>From: "Art" <null@zilch.com>
>
>| On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:30:41 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
>| <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:
>|
>>|> It is available on Windows Update. Why is it a whopper 31 meg update? May
>>|> as well issue a new service pack.
>>|>
>>> A rose by any other name...
>>>
>>> The last SP was ~ 128MB. So the rollup is 31MB. What's the problem ?
>|
>| Reinstalling the OS and having to d/l tons of updates again
>|
>| With Win 98 and ME I had always kept a backup drive on a removeable
>| tray. I clone using XXCOPY. I then power down, remove the cloned
>| bootable drive, and put it on a shelf. In the event of h.d. failure,
>| I'm back in business very quickly and easily.
>|
>| I wasn't sure what I would wind up doing with Win 2K but I just now
>| tried out XXCLONE from the same company:
>|
>|
http://xxclone.com/idwnload.htm
>|
>| It made a bootable cloned drive very quickly. In fact, I disabled my
>| main drive and I'm running right now from the clone ... a secondary
>| master. It works fine.
>|
>| I like this apparoach very much. No sector cloning and restriction
>| that the backup drive must be about the same size. My main drive
>| is 60 gig, my clone is only 7.6 gig, and I use less than 3 gig right
>| now. I use older smaller drives for backup that have been tested
>| using utils from the drive manufacturers.
>|
>| And XXCLONE is free for personal use.
>|
>| Art
>|
>|
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
>
>
>Art:
>
>The objective is to slip-stream the i386 installation files with SP4 and the RollUp. This
>way when you re-install the OS you are at the latest level and only need those patches that
>are NOT included in SP4 and the Security RollUp.
>
>Although when you run the EXE with the '/?' switch it idicates it it will use the
>'/integrate:<path>' switch I found it also interprets the older '/s:<path>' switch as well.
>
>So if the the i386 folder is in the root of drive "D:" you can slip-stream the d:\i386
>folder by the following command to slip-stream the folder...
>
>Sec_RollUp.exe /s:d:\
>
>{ the actual EXE file has a more complicated name and I used the above to simplify it}
??? I don't get it. Why reinstall the OS, motherboard drivers, etc.,
when you don't have to? I wouldn't want to have to do all my OS
settings over again either. Nor do I want to have to d/l my apps and
set them up all over again.
Art
http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
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