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Updating winders without windows update...
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:19 pm
by bubba
I am facing redoing yet another windows install and on some of my older Dells here at work they are SP1 for the image disks. Is there a way to have the patches that are on widows update on cd? Sucks staring at a windows update screen for an hour or two waiting for the updates to be pulled down.
I have done some looking and found
Autopatcher but didn't know if there is a better way or not.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:38 pm
by werty316
You can either install one of the update files from autopatcher.com or slipstream some updates onto an XP sertup CD.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:52 pm
by kenc51
http://windowsupdate.62nds.com/
Site doesn't work with IE for some reason
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:17 pm
by Darkstar
you could set up a WSUS Server
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:35 pm
by bubba
Just like WU, has to download each time. Think I try the autopatcher to DL the updates to disk.
Darkstar wrote:you could set up a WSUS Server
I'll pass, I'm not the IT guy, but I play one at work
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:37 pm
by stev
werty316 wrote:You can either install one of the update files from autopatcher.com or slipstream some updates onto an XP sertup CD.
I've done the slipstream, but you must be careful and burn the CD at a slower rate (~8x) to make sure the thing doesn't hick-up on you. I've learned that the hard way.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:02 am
by T-Shirt
Here's a link to the full SP2 download
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en
so you only need to download it once (then there are a billion or so patches since SP2 was released
)
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:12 am
by bubba
T-Shirt wrote:... then there are a billion or so patches since SP2 was released
Thats why I'm going to try the Autopatcher route. My issue is with the dells, can't sliptream the image on the recovery partition. I'll be redoing the machine this week sometime, I'll let you all now if it worked.