Just a note on terminology here: XP Gold can also be called XP SP0.
However XP SP1 is not Gold. It is XP Gold integrated with SP1. "Gold"
refers to the first edition of software to be released to manufacturing and
general public availability. There is an "rtm" date and a later "date of
general public availability" which is the starting date for the support
lifecycle.

"BP" <nyc2233@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:O4xXEQBtIHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>I just did exactly that now.....XP w/SP1 (Gold) slipstreamed in SP2. Then I
>took that one with XP w/SP2 and slipstreamed in SP3.
> Maybe its over-kill? I read here that you can go directly from XP w/sp1
> (Gold) to SP3.
> BP ó¿ó
>
> "anon" <anon@anon.com> wrote in message
> news:e6WyyfAtIHA.4912@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Would it be safer to slipstream SP-2 to my XP-Pro gold CD and then
>> slipstream SP-3 to the CD I just created?
>>
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