[Davey7549]

Prospect
That is how approach it. Oldest date of release first and down the line to current.

Dave

[prospect]

Now I'm after XP updates. I got all the updates XP,SP1
But what about XP RTM OR
XP64-BIT edition
XP 64-BIT edition sp1

Well, I think you guys are getting the picture. should I get em all?
Plus I still don't know how to put em on a cd and install them.


Prospect

[prospect]

Bump, to help Win 98 poster for this. I can't get the right URL to direct him.

[pyritechips]

OMG! This is why Melissa and other poor sods on dial-up can't d/l these updates!

[hewee]

Wow 10.4 hours if all goes well Jim.

Took me like 15 min.

[mobo]

Thanks davey...I'm downloading all 98 updates as I type and should have them to cd in about 10-15 minutes for future reference as I undeerstand this is the last month for support on 98.

[pyritechips]

Yeah Hewee, it took me about 4 minutes. I will burn them to CD and mail it to her. It will get there faster! Imagine: snail mail faster than dial up?

[Stoner]

Thanks Davey and Daniel

That's the most convient way yet
to save Windows updates

Jack

[Byteman]

It's been possible by using the corporate features for some time....also known as "Distributable" when you see that feature, the item can be downloaded but not installed "on the fly" to be installed later, over network, on disk....indeed something to know about to save a lot of time and "pain" I just saved 98s and MEs today, total dialup time was over 5 hrs @ average: 4.5kbps on AOL 9.0 in NY state/US. Thats over 90Megs of updates between the 2 operating systems! (And there were some I didnt get like the .NET framework jazz and language packs) These were also just Critical Updates/Security....

[prospect]

How are you guys burning these updates to a cd? I'm having trouble. I can't copy and past em to the cd. It keeps having problems with a file. So I tried Easy cd. But its saying I mite not be able to read some files. I running XP.
I made 4 folders and one file to hold em all in.

[angelique01]

Originally posted by prospect:
How are you guys burning these updates to a cd? I'm having trouble. I can't copy and past em to the cd. It keeps having problems with a file. So I tried Easy cd. But its saying I mite not be able to read some files. I running XP.
I made 4 folders and one file to hold em all in.

try downloading Nero, it lets' you burn that type of stuff. Hey anyone wanna send me a cd, lol. I have dialup. I think I may be waiting awhile

"make sure you have the newer V4 control download on your system."

how do I know if I have this?

[prospect]

I would, but I'm not sure these work yet. Here's the message Easy is giving me. " One or more paths in this cd project has exceeded the maximum length allowed by the current file system.
You may continue to burn this cd, but the files in these paths may not be readable."

I burned em anyway. They look to be ok on the cd. Now all I need is windows 98 to test em.

[angelique01]

Originally posted by prospect:
I would, but I'm not sure these work yet. Here's the message Easy is giving me. " One or more paths in this cd project has exceeded the maximum length allowed by the current file system.
You may continue to burn this cd, but the files in these paths may not be readable."

I burned em anyway. They look to be ok on the cd. Now all I need is windows 98 to test em.

oh ok, hope everything works out . im starting to download them now. I did all the small KB ones first, about 35 of the Critical Updates, only gonna take about 48mins. The larger ones will be done probably over night because I'm putting in a new HDD tomorrow and partioning it to put a new installation of 98SE on it and I want the updates just in case I cannot get back to them .

[Byteman]

The message about path length refers to how deep the folders are nested, I get about the same using Burnatonce- I am wondering about combining a few folders to make a shorter "nest" has anyone tried this yet?

[prospect]

Is that what that means. I made a folder to hold all the win 98 updates. When ya get into that folder, you have to click on all kinds of different folders to get to the updates. There's folders in side of folders for no reason. Well, at least to me there is no reason.

prospect