Slipstreaming Upgrades
If you are upgrading to SQL Server 2008, you’ll likely want to install Service Pack 1 as well and possibly the latest cumulative update. In the past, this meant running the upgrade and then running the Service Pack 1 (SP1) install and cumulative update separately. This process can be tedious and time consuming. Fortunately with the release of SP1, SQL Server 2008 supports Slipstream installations and upgrades. As mentioned previously, slipstreaming is a method of integrating a SQL Server 2008 update with the original installation media so that the original media and the update are installed at the same time.
Because slipstreaming was introduced with SQL Server 2008 SP1 and not with the initial release, a slipstream upgrade ...
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