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Windows NT More News About Service Pack 5 |
from The
Sunbelt Team
If you ran in trouble trying to get the "Full Installation" option
of the 128-bit version, Microsoft pulled it from the SP5 download
page.
They underestimated the immediate bandwidth needed, and pulled
one of the
two. They said they will put it back online May 19-th.
It's not pulled
because of bugs found, which is reassuring. Why
the nineteenth? How 'bout
that it's the release date of the new
Star Wars 'Phantom' and they expect us
geeks to be at the movies
<grin>
SP5 breaks a few tools, and
AutoPilot is one of 'em. I expect a
few other third party utilities like
virus protection tools to
have the same problem. It is caused by the NT
Symbol file. This
file essentially provides a symbol name to address
translation
for objects within the NT kernel. AutoPilot needs this
information
to talk to successfully communicate with NT. Since these
mappings
change with every service pack, we need to make AutoPilot aware
of these mappings before it will operate. It's not so much
work.
For the techies among you that want to see what's in it, MS did
not published the link to the debug symbols for SP5. Here it is:
http://download.microsoft.com/msdownload/sp5/x86/en/Sp5symi.exe
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