Slipstreaming Windows 7 SP1

In a short time SP1 for Win 7 will be released to the general public. As in the past, people will probably want to slipstream SP1 into 7. According to an April 2009 APC Magazine article the creator of nLite and vLite had no plans for a 7Lite version. Early tests with 7 Beta showed limited success with vLite and dismal success with RTM 7.

Any thoughts on how slipstreaming will be done without a 7Lite? Is 7's architecture so different from Vista that other slipstreaming methods won't work? Is RT 7Lite a viable alternative for slipstreaming? And finally, many manufacturers do not provide any kind of install disk (either full install or recovery) with their machines and instead opt to have a recovery partition. How would this affect slipstreaming?

Since SP1 has not been released to the general public and this is all speculation, I figured General Discussion would be the best place to post. If I was wrong please feel free to move to another category.

1) I've read several accounts of folks successfully slipstreaming sp1 beta using 7lite, so we'll just need to wait and see how sp1 rtm turns out. Obviously, a win installer dvd or iso would be required, which can be borrowed from a friend or located on the web. Naturally, when you use a generic dvd, the oem customizations will not be available and the install will not auto-activate as in the case of OEM restore disks. That'll involve a call to MS (phone activation).

2) Another option is to use DISM which is inbuilt in windows 7. This is a command line tool but there are experimental DISM GUIs around like DXTool or Jinje's tool.

3) The easiest option would be to let MS do it (MS does release slipstreamed dvds and also isos for technet amd msdn), then locate a malware-free copy on the web and download and burn to dvd. As long as one uses a legally purchased key, theres nothing sinister about that.

Bill2 said:

3) The easiest option would be to let MS do it (MS does release slipstreamed dvds and also isos for technet amd msdn), then locate a malware-free copy on the web and download and burn to dvd. As long as one uses a legally purchased key, theres nothing sinister about that.

Yea,l but that's no fun, LOL!

slurp812 said:

Bill2 said:

3)

Yea,l but that's no fun, LOL!

True. I do intend to give it a shot with both 7lite and dism, when sp1 comes out.