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Well I have been reading about putting Windows XP on all weekend and how hard it was from usb, so I thought I would show you the easy way, using Windows Fundamentals and lets face it its the better choice.
Here goes.
What you need:-
PeToUSB
Copy of Windows XP Fundamentals
USB Pen drive 1gb
1: Put your Fundamentals disc in your drive.
2: Insert your pendrive.
3: Load PeToUSB
4: Configure it with your sources and destination like this
5: Click start
6: Once its finished insert it into your EEE PC and set the bios to boot from the pendrive.
7: And watch it install!
Why no changes to system files you ask? Because it uses a Vista style installer.
Enjoy
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I have only tried this with on EEE PC, were on with the second one now, will let you know how it goes.
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Sounds interesting, let us know the results...
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Well thats 2 down and both working great, going to customize it with a brico pack from crtystal xp and also use portable apps to so not to over use the ssd
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Is there a list of features that have been stripped down from windows FLP?
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Oh well... unfortunately the CS department here at my university is comprised of a bunch of Microsoft-bashers, so that is a no go.
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Great post - first time I've heard of Windows XP Fundamentals.
For those of you that have done this - how does it work with 512RAM? Is the Eee still zippy?
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Can we do something similar with an SD card? or must it be a usb key?
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How much ram does it take up while running? How much of the SSD drive is usedup as well?
Does it have the same program support as windows XP?
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and to continue the barrage of questions:
1. boot up time?
2. does suspend work?
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Well when I installed it it was using 85mb of ram then i put the drivers on and it went to 119.
I also installed office 07 and nod32 and after windows update i now have 105mb free. This is without stripping anything out, im ghosting it first before I do though.
Updates....
To boot you can also us an sd card, basically anything that is removable and bootable as long as it has space.
Also when i was installing make sure the operating system bit in the bios is set to finished and not setup as this will cause it to bork.
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Boot up time is around 20 seconds i will time it properly tomorrow.
Also it does suspend and wake up properly.
What were going to do is get a 4gb SD card off ebuyer.com (really cheap) and then move the swap and user profiles over to that.
We will also use portable apps on the card, firefox been one of them.
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demon-knight wrote:
Well when I installed it it was using 85mb of ram then i put the drivers on and it went to 119.
I also installed office 07 and nod32
nod32? Never used that - does it have a smaller footprint than AVG or Avast? Is that why you chose it?
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Nod uses 20/40mb of ram depending what its doing, I use it cause its small and fast and it has better detection rates than most.
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Ok, I've run through this several times, and the install fails at the same point each time - it finishes copying the OS image, then moves on to 'installing drivers for Plug and Play devices'. It then throws up an error message, saying 'Failed to load resources from resource file. Please check your setup.'
And thats as far as it gets....
Anyone know a way around this?
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Pantaloonie wrote:
Ok, I've run through this several times, and the install fails at the same point each time - it finishes copying the OS image, then moves on to 'installing drivers for Plug and Play devices'. It then throws up an error message, saying 'Failed to load resources from resource file. Please check your setup.'
And thats as far as it gets....
Anyone know a way around this?
Shot in the dark but:
demon-knight wrote:
To boot you can also us an sd card, basically anything that is removable and bootable as long as it has space.
Also when i was installing make sure the operating system bit in the bios is set to finished and not setup as this will cause it to bork.
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Yup, tried both settings, it fails a lot earlier when set to 'start', it only starts the install when set to 'finished'.
I'm gonna try to install it from an SD card now.
Edit - Same problem with SD card, fails at the same point.
Last edited by Pantaloonie (2007-11-05 11:17:57 am)
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im also having issues, can someone do a walkthrough as to how they installed it to a sd card?? thanks
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I never did get Fundamentals to install, but I used nlite to make my own version, which installed ok.
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Pantaloonie wrote:
I never did get Fundamentals to install, but I used nlite to make my own version, which installed ok.
What did you do? If I set the bios to Finished, it doesn't see my usb dvd drive. If I set the bios to Start, the first part (copy) works but after the first reboot it can't find ntldr and my SSD is hosed.
I'm trying to install to an 8gb SDHC card.
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Demon - are you getting the the proper 800x480 display using Fundamentals?
The option isn't there for me. Anyone with suggestions?
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rjk6w4 wrote:
Demon - are you getting the the proper 800x480 display using Fundamentals?
The option isn't there for me. Anyone with suggestions?
Nevermind, you have to copy the drivers from the dvd to the flash drive first.
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could not install after deleting partitions and creating one. gave error about there being no system disk.
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FLP requires an existing windows partition on the destination system, almost like an upgrade but not as it formats the destination drive during flp install process 
. hope this helps as it confused me initially, it's no OEM disc thats for sure... bl**dy thing!.
works nice once deployed however small footprint, very little services running etc :0
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so ... i dont have a epc with me now..... but does this work with a normal xp??
so i have to do this on a windows based computer........??
please help out this poor newbie(me)
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