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If you want the nostalgia of running the original updates for a couple hours or plugging in a new card for the first time that's definitely the best way to get
by zamadatix 2y ago
If you want the nostalgia of running the original updates for a couple hours or plugging in a new card for the first time that's definitely the best way to get it. If you just want to get the final version on a machine then installing from an already slipstreamed installer image like in the article is probably the way to go, significantly faster and doesn't require any bootstrapping of getting the install "good enough" to be able to run the updates in the first place.
- fourfour3 2y agoThe article slipstreams drivers rather than any updates - but yes, you could slipstream updates, and there are unofficial pre-updated ISOs available. I've tried ones for 98, 2000 and XP and I've found that most of those unofficial updates go too far - they tend to try to do things like backport DLLs or APIs for better compatibility with newer software, but I've found they make the system less stable and less period correct - which affects software compatibility. In my case, I'm trying to run a mix of old programming software and old games - both of these had problems on unofficial update packs.