A. Khattri wrote: >On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Microsoft makes online updating of XP sooo >>easy....but there is no simple mechanism to store the updates for later >>re-installations...or to tell the automatic updater to look/store them >>in a particular directory. >> >> > >What I do is burn the latest service packs onto a CD. When setting up a >new machine you can install the service packs after the main install and >then go online to get updates. > >
Well, I had the latest SP (XP SP1a, at the time, it was back in Nov/Dec 203) on an external USB harddrive, so I had no problem to install that. But I really needed the security updates. IIRC, there was some massive internet worm attacking windows PCs for weeks on end. I can't remember the name of it. Things might be better today with SP2 and the firewall, but I think I'll stick with Gentoo... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
