Installing Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional integrated with the service pack 2
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This section explains how to create an integrated installation of Windows XP Home Edition or
Windows XP Professional and the service pack in a shared distribution folder on a network.
The integrated process installs the service pack during Windows XP Setup. To complete this
procedure, you must use a computer that is running Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional.

In order to use the Setup Manager Wizard (setupmgr.exe) to install Windows XP Home Edition or
Windows XP Professional integrated with SP2, you must have the installation medium for the
integrated version of Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional with SP2, or you must
create a shared distribution folder on the network (as explained in the following procedure). 

The steps in this procedure use example file locations for creating an integrated installation of
Windows XP Professional. You can follow similar conventions for Windows XP Home Edition. 

Note

In the following procedure, Drive:\ represents the drive name of the network or computer where
your distribution folder is located.

To create an integrated installation of Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional
and the service pack

1.
 Connect to the network or computer on which you want to create the distribution folder.
 
2.
 In the shared folder on the network, create a distribution folder for the Windows XP installation files. 

For example, to create a distribution folder named XPSP2_INT\PRO, type the following:

mkdir Drive:\XPSP2_INT\PRO 

Ensure that only the system administrator has full access to this folder. Other users should have
only Read and Execute permissions.
 
3.
 Insert your Windows XP product CD into the CD-ROM drive, and then copy the contents of the CD
to the distribution folder that you created in Step 2. 

For example, to copy the installation files and folders from the Windows XP Home Edition or 
Windows XP Professional product CD in the CD-ROM drive (D:) to the distribution folder named
XPSP2_INT\PRO, type the following: 

xcopy D:\ Drive:\XPSP2_INT\PRO /E
 
4.
 Remove the product CD from the CD-ROM drive, and then insert the service pack CD.
 
5.
 If you want to store these files locally (as described in The Update Installation earlier in this
document), you can extract the service pack source files from XPsp2.exe and put them in a folder on
your hard disk. If you do not want to store these files locally, skip this step and the installation
will put the files in the default location. 

For example, to extract the service pack files located in the CD-ROM drive (D:) to a folder named temp
on the drive where the distribution folder is located, you would type the following: 

D:\XPsp2.exe /X: Drive:\temp /U
 
6.
 If you extracted the files, you can apply the service pack to the Windows XP installation files 
located in the folder named XPSP2_INT\PRO by typing the following: 

Drive:\temp\update\update.exe /S:Drive:\XPSP2_INT\PRO

For a list of command-line options that you can use with this command line, see Command-Line Options
for XPsp2.exe and Update.exe earlier in this document. 
 
7.
 The Setup Wizard for SP2 for Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional displays the 
progress of your installation and informs you when the installation is completed.
 
8.
 Customize Windows XP Setup as necessary (for example, to complete an unattended installation or 
add OEM files). For information about how to do this, see the Microsoft Windows XP Professional 
Resource Kit Documentation on the Microsoft Windows Deployment and Resource Kits Web site, 
and Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Reference Help (ref.chm) included in Deploy.cab on your CD
 in the \support\tools folder.
 
9.
 You can now deploy Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional to multiple computers from 
the shared distribution folder in either attended or unattended Setup mode. During the standard 
installation process, Setup installs the operating system with the service pack already applied. 
For further details, see the Microsoft Windows Corporate Deployment Tools User’s Guide (deploy.chm)
included in Deploy.cab in the \Support\Tools folder on your Service Pack 2 CD.
 

Important

When you run the Update.exe program for an integrated installation (as described earlier), 
a Svcpack.log file is created automatically in systemroot on the computer that is running the 
Update.exe program. If you plan to update more than one version of Windows XP on this computer, 
rename the Svcpack.log file after you update each version. This ensures that you do not overwrite 
the current log file when you update additional versions of Windows XP.