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One of the best features of recent Microsoft installers, is the ability to Slipstream Service Packs and Hotfixes into the base install CD, so when you install the application or OS it’s already updated. I’m getting ready for a reinstall of XP, and found the following link while downloading updates and drivers last night—sheer brilliance.

Automatically Slipstream Windows XP with SP2 and All Critical Post-SP2 Hotfixes with a Single Command.

I used the console cmd file, since I don’t have Cygwin (a unix runtime environment for windows), and I used Easy CD Creator to burn the result back to a bootable cdrom. The cdrom boot sector settings for a Windows XP are below.

• No Emulation
• Load Segment: 0x7c0
• Sector Count: 4

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