Slipstream Win7 SP1

[Ex_Brit]

Yep my bad, you should be able to use a 32 bit pack on a 64 bit machine. And yes, the RT7 is looking for the sp .exe you downloaded.

OK, listen I'm going to try out integration manually, will let you know how it works.

Good man....you're very brave. Let us know how it goes.

 

[pparks1]

Then what's the point of an upgrade if there are no performance improvements.

It's a collection of updates to bring a brand new installation up to a certain point. In addition, I think it adds one or two small features as well...but from what I have read...these aren't really features that hardly any of us will use.

The advantage is that you can load the original DVD, then the service pack and then Windows update will only have a couple of updates. Without the service pack installation, Windows update would then have a ton of updates to download and install from the web.

I'm currently in the process of downloading the RC release of the service pack. I will then run it through rt7lite and let others know of the time required for me on my box.

 

[Ex_Brit]

I'm trying a different approach and doing the slipstreaming on my x86 netbook, which is the only Win 7 OS that I haven't managed to upgrade to SP1 yet.

So far it's got further than it did before failure on my PC, so am keeping fingers, toes, etc. crossed and hoping for success.

By the way, Benjamin at RT Seven Lite support pointed me to their forums here:

RT 7 Lite - RC v1.7.0 and Beta v2.6.0 - Rockers Team

Should anyone need to get further help.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.......

 

[pparks1]

Well, I've been slipstreaming service packs into Windows releases for quite a number of years now. Granted, the Windows 7 SP1 pack is the largest of the service packs that I have tried to slipstream, but without a doubt the RT7lite process is the slowest slipstream process I have ever used. My typical procedure in the past was using nlite with the Windows Updater Downloader (WUD) packs to get the latest security updates.

For reference, my testing box is an Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 at 3.0ghz, with 8GB of DDR2-800RAM, a single Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue Hard drive which runs Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.

1). Took approx 2 minutes and 30 seconds to extract the Windows 7 Ultimate ISO into a folder on my C drive
2). Took about 1 minute and 30 seconds to re-read the image.
3). Took about 59 minutes to slipstream Windows 7 RC1 64bit (880MB roughly) into the build
4). Took about 8 minutes and 30 seconds to re-read/load the image with the Service Pack slipstreamed in. (CPU pegged at 100%)
5). Took approx 2 minutes and 45 seconds to build the output ISO file with the SP1 slipstreamed in.

Starting ISO file was 3,149,108KB and ending ISO file was 3,771,518KB. Took about 1hr and 15 minutes from start to finish.

 

[Ex_Brit]

Yes it takes its time, however it works and is simpler than the manual integration method.
I finally acheived success with mine and learned a lesson the the process.

RT Seven Lite is NOT compatible (yet?) with Windows 7 SP1 only the non-updated Windows 7. It is a beta product in any case so still in development I guess.

 

[yowanvista]

Yes it takes its time, however it works and is simpler than the manual integration method.
I finally acheived success with mine and learned a lesson the the process.

RT Seven Lite is NOT compatible (yet?) with Windows 7 SP1 only the non-updated Windows 7. It is a beta product in any case so still in development I guess.

Version 2.6B is fully compatible with SP1

 

[Ex_Brit]

Yes it takes its time, however it works and is simpler than the manual integration method.
I finally acheived success with mine and learned a lesson the the process.

RT Seven Lite is NOT compatible (yet?) with Windows 7 SP1 only the non-updated Windows 7. It is a beta product in any case so still in development I guess.

Version 2.6B is fully compatible with SP1

It didn't work when I was trying to slipstream a disk in my already-upgraded Win 7 Ultimate SP1, kept failing repeatedly about one-third through slipstreaming, but it succeeded on my netbook which is still non-SP'd (SP1 failed to install several times).

My reason for making the slipstreamed disk is to do an in-situ upgrade/repair install of Win 7 on that netbook.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Yes it takes its time, however it works and is simpler than the manual integration method.
I finally acheived success with mine and learned a lesson the the process.

RT Seven Lite is NOT compatible (yet?) with Windows 7 SP1 only the non-updated Windows 7. It is a beta product in any case so still in development I guess.

Version 2.6B is fully compatible with SP1

It didn't work when I was trying to slipstream in my already-upgraded Win 7 Ultimate SP1, kept failing repeatedly about one-third through slipstreaming, but it succeeded on my netbook which is still non-SP'd (SP1 failed to install several times).



My reason for making the slipstreamed disk is to do an in-situ upgrade/repair install of Win 7 on that netbook.

Hi Ex.brit

I managed to create my slipstreamed disk with SP1 installed but that was on Home Premium

Danny

 

[yowanvista]

Yes it takes its time, however it works and is simpler than the manual integration method.
I finally acheived success with mine and learned a lesson the the process.

RT Seven Lite is NOT compatible (yet?) with Windows 7 SP1 only the non-updated Windows 7. It is a beta product in any case so still in development I guess.

Version 2.6B is fully compatible with SP1

It didn't work when I was trying to slipstream a disk in my already-upgraded Win 7 Ultimate SP1, kept failing repeatedly about one-third through slipstreaming, but it succeeded on my netbook which is still non-SP'd (SP1 failed to install several times).

My reason for making the slipstreamed disk is to do an in-situ upgrade/repair install of Win 7 on that netbook.

It worked perfectly for me

 

[Ex_Brit]

Must have been something on that particular machine blocking it then, although I got no pop-up warnings at all, weird.

 

[yowanvista]

Must have been something on that particular machine blocking it then, although I got no pop-up warnings at all, weird.

Run it as Administrator

 

[Ex_Brit]

That's a thought, thanks.

 

[Ex_Brit]

I'm afraid that didn't work. I'll check on those RT7Lite forums I posted a link to earlier to see if anyone else is experiencing this.

 

[Bill2]

Whew! just finished integrating sp1 manually. Basically, it involves extracting the SP (including cabs inside the sp), then integrating it using the dism add package command. Advantage was one can integrate all the images (indexes) inside install.wim, so now I have an AIO integrated dvd. Havent used it to install win7, but it boots fine to RE.

Took a whole day though and a bit involved at times, easy to loose track.

 

[ie9]

I guess I shouldn't tell you that the ISO's are supposed to be leaked in the upcoming hours then Bill?

 

[Bill2]

I guess I shouldn't tell you that the ISO's are supposed to be leaked in the upcoming hours then Bill?

Hey dont worry IE9, getting my hands dirty with stuff like this is my idea of fun.

 

[ie9]

Hey dont worry IE9, getting my hands dirty with stuff like this is my idea of fun.

True

Anyways, it was supposed to happen tonight, but it didn't. Looks like you're sitting pretty!

 

[acurasd]

This may be a dumb question and I was searching all over google for it.

Where do you go about downloading the network install of Windows 7 SP1 so that I may streamline it?

I have Windows 7 x64

 

[Bill2]

Whats network install??

 

[acurasd]

Where you download the whole image file of the SP1 instead of using Windows Update so that you may install it on multiple computers instead of downloading it, per computer.