[westwoodman21]

Hello all, new to the forums here. I installed Boot Camp on my Laptop, and all I had was XP Home disc w/ SP1...I didn't do any slipstreaming just went w/ the normal install. XP boots up and runs fine, I just want SP2 for the additional stuff that comes w/ SP2 etc. When I boot to Windows and I connect to my wireless all is good, Windows Updates trys to go to update to SP2 and it makes it only so far, I then get an error I will go get the error in a second, once I boot into Windows and I will repost the error. Is there anyway to install SP2 Installed??

Thanks,

Nick

[westwoodman21]

Ok guys here goes,

There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 2. Setup requires a minimum of 4 additional megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstillation, Setup requires 4 additional megabytes of free space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again.

There's the error...I have 6.94GB free space on my hard drive (windows portion) so there should be more than enough room. I had 4.5GB and I uninstalled a game that took me to the 6.94GB I am at. I can't see needing more than almost 7GB for SP2....anyone know what to do? I'm stuck!!

[Cold Warrior]

Originally Posted by westwoodman21 

anyone know what to do? I'm stuck!!

Wipe, repartition using Boot Camp, slipstream to SP2, and reinstall.

[v8q]

I am having the same problem!

I get it when trying to install sp2 using a real pc too. I don't think the problem has anything to do with boot camp or apple hardware. This is pure M$ bullbush all the way. I am trying various ways of slipstreaming sp1 and sp2 right now. This is with a xp pro corp cd with no service packs. (in other words, worthless crap) The one possibility is that maybe it will not work on a GUID partion. If so, see part about worthless crap.

Originally Posted by westwoodman21 

Ok guys here goes,

There is not enough disk space on C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ to install Service Pack 2. Setup requires a minimum of 4 additional megabytes of free space or if you also want to archive the files for uninstillation, Setup requires 4 additional megabytes of free space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again.

There's the error...I have 6.94GB free space on my hard drive (windows portion) so there should be more than enough room. I had 4.5GB and I uninstalled a game that took me to the 6.94GB I am at. I can't see needing more than almost 7GB for SP2....anyone know what to do? I'm stuck!!

[ghporter]

READ THE SLIPSTREAMING THREAD. Seriously, it's all in there. The code to integrate SP2 into a basic XP installation is built into SP2. And you can run nLite on any version of XP.

[v8q]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

READ THE SLIPSTREAMING THREAD. Seriously, it's all in there. The code to integrate SP2 into a basic XP installation is built into SP2. And you can run nLite on any version of XP.

Slipstreaming isn't really the problem - In fact it is pretty easy.
In a nutshell, you download the service pack file and on a real windows box you just execute the file and it updates the current running OS. Or, you do sp2.exe -x to extract the files to hard disk, then go to the just created directory/i386/update and run the update.exe command with the -s option to slipstream into a install CD directory tree. There are plenty of writeups on how to get it all done. The problem I and others had is the update.exe program can not figure out how much free space is on a GUID disk partition so it quits. I was doing some of this work with a GUID disk on a PC, and even though it recognizes the disk/partition, it seems to make lots of disk errors writing to it. I did finally get both XP service pack 3 and Vista to install and run properly.