Question, and forgive me if someone's asked this elsewhere (I have been looking!!!):
Can I have AP do one, large, monolithic, all-in-one group patch (ie: all (english) versions of XP + all versions of Windows 7 + add-ons and extras, etc...) without causing AP to go nuts? Or is it recommended/required that I do a SEPARATE instance of each AP "patch" for each particual OS and its resulting architechture?
Current I'm doing the latter and albeit time-consuming and tedious, it does none-the-less work great; however, if I can just up and do a huge AIO, then mmmperfect!
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Building a large AIO of AP?
Started by mabbott, Apr 27 2012 03:08 AM
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 03:08 AM
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 05:05 AM
Well its been recommended in the past that for apup you should do one OS set of downloads at a time. Something to do with apup v1 not being able to handle it. apup2 has no such limitations but, its still beta and has little glitches here and there. I think Im happy enough to put out a more updated version of apup2. Still some glitches but, nothing that will cause any problems. Just glitches with counting remaining download time and often the download bars show as fully downloaded when still downloading. Small things I just have not gotten around to tracking down.
Still it is recommended to keep the download separate for a few reasons.
1) Autopatcher.exe likes to MD5 EVERYTHING that it can in order verify that you have a legit download. This will slow things down immensely if you include the gigabytes of data from other OS updates. We are talking possibly 3-5 mins just to start up autopatcher. Incredibly longer if its on USB(1 or 2), or network, or god forbid a dvd. If its on a dvd and its full, you might as well go get something to eat.
2) If you want to make a cd/dvd or usb targeted at a certain OS keeping things separated make its just click and drag. If everything is together you will not be able to separate them without thorough examinations.
Still it is recommended to keep the download separate for a few reasons.
1) Autopatcher.exe likes to MD5 EVERYTHING that it can in order verify that you have a legit download. This will slow things down immensely if you include the gigabytes of data from other OS updates. We are talking possibly 3-5 mins just to start up autopatcher. Incredibly longer if its on USB(1 or 2), or network, or god forbid a dvd. If its on a dvd and its full, you might as well go get something to eat.
2) If you want to make a cd/dvd or usb targeted at a certain OS keeping things separated make its just click and drag. If everything is together you will not be able to separate them without thorough examinations.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 07:17 AM
Take it from someone that already has an AIO autopatcher, better to heed to ViroMan's advice.
Occassionly after updating with all the releases the status on mine goes to unofficial but checking the release info they are true for being official.
I do however have a second machine with different OS installed and one its updated and showing official, copy contents to flash drive then compare the two to find the discrepency,usually an obselete apm or rampant folder that didn't delete.
@ViroMan...have a third backup as a dvd and running an AIO,you have enough time for at least two meals, kept incase i neew to wipe a sytem and rebuild from anew.
Enough said..... Enter or Do at your risk!!
Occassionly after updating with all the releases the status on mine goes to unofficial but checking the release info they are true for being official.
I do however have a second machine with different OS installed and one its updated and showing official, copy contents to flash drive then compare the two to find the discrepency,usually an obselete apm or rampant folder that didn't delete.
@ViroMan...have a third backup as a dvd and running an AIO,you have enough time for at least two meals, kept incase i neew to wipe a sytem and rebuild from anew.
Enough said..... Enter or Do at your risk!!
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 01:15 AM
I appreciate the feedback, guys! It was something of a "Gee, if I can do an AIO this will _really_ save me some hassle!" thing. I will continue with the tried and true method of one set of updates per apup.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 03:13 PM
Just as a matter of interest I timed the loading of my AIO and here are the results, remember mine contains WinXP SP3,Vista x86,Win 7 x86,Win 7 x64,extras and .NET x86 and x64 as well as the AP module and Common module.
From HDD 1 minutes 35 seconds (AP April 2012)
DVD 6 minutes 45 seconds (AP March 2012 backup)
As yet to do a timing from flash drive but will post the result sometime soon
From HDD 1 minutes 35 seconds (AP April 2012)
DVD 6 minutes 45 seconds (AP March 2012 backup)
As yet to do a timing from flash drive but will post the result sometime soon
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 03:29 PM
from flash should be close to HDD if you have usb 2 or 3. Again... remember guys... moving the rti files makes the load instant... it just complains about being unofficial.
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