This portion is intended solely to get your CD updated and create a basic Unattended disc.

Step 1 - Creating a Local Source

Submitted by Alanoll

This step is perhaps one of the easiest things to do, and as with all easy things, there are many different ways to accomplish it.

I'm just going to cover two methods: Manual, and Automated.

» The Automated Way

We're going to use a program called nLite. It requires the .NET Framework, so if you don't want that on your computer, skip down to the Manual section.

So let's get started.

• Put the OS CD into your CDROM drive. If the Autorun menu starts, feel free to close it. We're not going to use it.
  
• Now let's start nLite. And continue untill you get to this screen.
  
  
  
• Click the "Browse" button.
  
• Select the CDROM drive with your OS CD inside of it.
  
  
  
• Now, because you have selected a READ-ONLY source, i.e. the CDROM, another box will come up just like the first. This is where your CD will be copied to.
  
  
  
• Click OK and when finished, go ahead and exit out of nLite.

» The Manual Way

I prefer this method myself, primarily because I like doing things myself. We're going to manually copy our CD to the hard drive.

• Put the OS CD into your CDROM drive. If the Autorun menu starts, feel free to close it. We're not going to use it.
  
• Open up My Computer, then Right-Click on the CDROM with your CD in it, and select Open.
  
  
  
• You can either, click and drag selecting all the contents of your current location, or simply press
  
  
  
• Right-Click on your mouse, and select copy, or press
  
  
  
• Now navigate to your hard drive, and create a new folder called whatever you want. Just remember its name.
  
• Open that folder, Right-Click on your mouse, and select paste, or press
  
  

From this point on, for the sake of ease, I will call the destination of your copied source XPCD.

Step 2 - Slipstreaming the Latest Service Pack

Submitted by Alanoll

As with the making of the local source in Step 1, this step also has two ways of accomplishing the goal.

The two methods are the Manual way, and the Automated way using nLite.

» The Automated Way

• Start up nLite. Just keep clicking next till you get to this screen:
  
  
  
• Click the Browse button, and select the folder you copied your source to in Step 1. I'll be using C:\XPCD
  
• After selecting the folder click till you get to this screen:
  
  
  
• Click the Select button, and navigate to your download of the network service pack file, and click Open.
  
• A couple boxes should come open with progress bars.
  
  
  
  The above is for the extracting of the service pack, and the below for the integration of the service pack.
  
  
  
  Just wait untill they all close and you're back at the nLite screen. If you receive this box:
  
  
  
  feel free to click OK.
  
• Back in nLite, the area just above where you clicked Select, should now reveal your Operating System and what service pack level it is at.
  
• Exit out of nLite, and continue to Step 3.

» The Manual Way

This way is going to walk you through the steps necessary, as if you didn't have nLite and wanted to type in the commands necessary.

• Click Start, and select Run. If you don't see it on the start menu, simply press
  
  
  
• Now click within the box where it says your filename, and type:
  

  -s:C:\XPCD 

  
  Where C:\XPCD is the path to your Operating System local source. Note however, I did NOT point it to the I386 directory. It MUST be the directory I386 is within.
  
• You should see these boxes appear on screen:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Click OK on the final box, and continue to Step 3.