AutoPatcher Forum

Hi guys

First of all congratulations (and parabéns ) to cristiano and guitar_mike (and everyone else involved) for pulling off an Autopatcher Official Release!

Do you think it is possible to create a slipstreamed Official Release using nLite just by copying all the exes to a folder and pointing nLite to it?

I tried adding all to nlite and only got one complain that "windows-kb890830-v3.0.exe is not a regular hotfix. It is a Tool..."

Do you guys think this is a good idea? Won't it get confused to have both IE7 and IE8 (as an example)?

Cheers!
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You may be better served posting this question at the nLite forums @ MSFN

I will add that slipstreaming is beneficial and can limit the effort of updating a given service pack, there have been many
updates since the release of service pack 3 for Windows XP so if you can install them into an updated disc - this is a good
thing in my view, but opinions regarding the tools used to achieve this are wide, as I'm sure you know.

There is another very comprehensive guide that goes into great detail about this very subject, if you want more reading, well...
-> MSFN's Unattended Windows - the essentials are here in this guide though it is slowly becoming outdated.
Edited by gUiTaR_mIkE, 01 November 2009 - 10:45 AM.

oh well, there's a couple of updates that can't be slipstreamed. i knew that this was also impossible to .nets, but another day, someone asked an question about an detection and then i saw that i was wrong and this is possible, at least for some of them. as for kb890830, maybe, just maybe, you can add this one into an oem folder, to be installed at his proper time.

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 gUiTaR_mIkE, on 01 November 2009 - 10:26 AM, said:

I guess I had that coming

Thank you both for the replies and links

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Pedro said:

I hope you don't think we were sending you away, it just made more sense to point you to a forum that deals with your particular topic
specifically and in more detail - let us know what you discover.

No offense taken

I really want to do a clean install.
I just don't have a lot of time available to investigate and was hoping there was an easy solution...
I will post on this topic when I figure out how to deal with those odd packages. I think the MSFN Unattended link you suggested is a good starting point!

Cheers!
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Good to know Pedro

Just in case you might have missed the page at MSFN, check out HFSLIP (hotfix slipstreamer) - it may be a better and more up-to-date approach.

TommyP's HFSLIP Home _or_ HFSLIP @ MSFN

Let us know if it works for you.

How does HFSlip compare with RyanVM integrator?

http://www.ryanvm.net/msfn/
Or is the latter dead?
Edited by JRosenfeld, 04 November 2009 - 05:51 PM.

JRosenfeld said:

I would say they both try to accomplish similar goals and RyanVM is another option for sure.

All the programs I've seen offer for me what I want / need - slipstream updates into my install disc, in addition, they all seem to
offer the additional features I am not very interested in utilizing - driver or software application integration, OS tweaks etc. I do
plan on experimenting with these additional features once I have time - I just haven't gotten around to it.

RVMi is very good in itself. The problem is finding the right addons and update pack that will pretty much give you a clean install. That is how I ended up here on these forums, because I was looking for a tool that would basically cross-check my RVM integration. The people over at RVM are helpful too, like here and I have pretty much cleared up all of the discrepancies that showed up between the two applications.

Getting a bit off-topic, but if anyone is interested this is what I currently use for integration:

XPSP3_QFE_UpdatePack_1.1.1_20091014
YumeYao_IE8_Addon_Nosetuperr_ENU_1_3_0
YumeYao_WMP11_Addon_ENU_V3_3_0
DotNetFX35SP1_20091024_Addon_ENU
DirectXRuntimes-200908-Addon

Ciao ...
Edited by click-click, 06 November 2009 - 12:50 PM.