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Hi Joost,<br>
<br>
Thank you for this description and those links. I'll study them more.
I've tried various methods to get a bootable USB drive. Most, of the
websites that had instructions gave credit to pendrivelinux. I
succeeded in getting one bootable USB drive with GParted, and another
with SystemRescueCD. I'm particularly happy to have that, as it
includes TestDisk, which has recovered data off drives that would other
wise have been lost. <br>
<br>
Yes, you are quite right that I don't have a iso image of XP (Retail
version). I have one made with PEBuilder, from an OEM version of XP
Home. Then I used that iso with Unetbootin. I recall that it didn't
work, but it did begin to boot, and I think that the problem was to do
with the XP side of things, not the Unetbooting side.<br>
<br>
I won't be coming to Fosdem with Windows, but an install fest could be
good.<br>
<br>
Thanks again for your very helpful email.<br>
David<br>
<br>
<br>
Joost Ringoot wrote:
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cite="mid:4312782b1002051424u41575d8fh87d197994326d1d4@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><br>
<br>
To be honest, I never tried unetbootin. <br>
Here however is described how to use an iso-image to install any OS
with unetbootin:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other</a><br>
<br>
I had a lot of success, also on LVM partioned servers with RAID 1, I
cloned one dell Pizabox with Centos to another pizza box, with this
nifty thingy:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://clonezilla.org/">http://clonezilla.org/</a><br>
It was darn flawless and easy.<br>
They describe a way to manually put the image on an USB stick, but this
may help even better:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-clonezilla-on-usb/">http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-clonezilla-on-usb/</a><br>
<br>
But I guess you don't have an iso image of windows XP<br>
<br>
BTW: are you sure you want to use windows XP on Fosdem?<br>
Try Ubuntu, imho, the first Linux distro that is really easier in all
aspects (install, driver support, multimedia support, etc...) than
Windows.<br>
<br>
Reading that people consider to come with Windows to Fosdem, I believe
that there is need for a classic Linux install fest:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html</a><br>
<br>
...<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/5 David Baines <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:david_baines@sil.org">david_baines@sil.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">I saw that it runs on
windows, but can it make a bootable windows disk?<br>
Could you point me to directions for doing that, I tried it yesterday,
and it didn't seem to work. <br>
I think that the problem may have been to do with having an OEM version
of XP.<br>
<br>
Very many thanks,<br>
David.<br>
<br>
Joost Ringoot wrote:
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<div>
<div class="h5">look again, it works also with netbsd and freebsd
and
(Curse alert!!!)... Windows.<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/5 Andrew Stormont <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:andyjstormont@googlemail.com"
target="_blank">andyjstormont@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Unetbookin
only works with Linux :\
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2010 14:38, Ewald
Tienkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ewald@tienkamp.nl" target="_blank">ewald@tienkamp.nl</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>> My CD drive has died on me (been burning CD's all
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> get an OS installed on my Netbook, for my stall.<br>
<br>
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If it's just about that install on your netbook, you could use<br>
UNetbootin to create a bootable usb-drive:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
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