Hi Joost, 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. 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. I won't be coming to Fosdem with Windows, but an install fest could be good. Thanks again for your very helpful email. David Joost Ringoot wrote:
To be honest, I never tried unetbootin. Here however is described how to use an iso-image to install any OS with unetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other
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: http://clonezilla.org/ It was darn flawless and easy. They describe a way to manually put the image on an USB stick, but this may help even better: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-clonezilla-on-usb/
But I guess you don't have an iso image of windows XP
BTW: are you sure you want to use windows XP on Fosdem? Try Ubuntu, imho, the first Linux distro that is really easier in all aspects (install, driver support, multimedia support, etc...) than Windows.
Reading that people consider to come with Windows to Fosdem, I believe that there is need for a classic Linux install fest: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Installfest-HOWTO/index.html
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2010/2/5 David Baines <david_baines@sil.org <mailto:david_baines@sil.org>>
I saw that it runs on windows, but can it make a bootable windows disk? Could you point me to directions for doing that, I tried it yesterday, and it didn't seem to work. I think that the problem may have been to do with having an OEM version of XP.
Very many thanks, David.
Joost Ringoot wrote:
look again, it works also with netbsd and freebsd and (Curse alert!!!)... Windows.
2010/2/5 Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont@googlemail.com <mailto:andyjstormont@googlemail.com>>
Unetbookin only works with Linux :\
On 5 February 2010 14:38, Ewald Tienkamp <ewald@tienkamp.nl <mailto:ewald@tienkamp.nl>> wrote:
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The following was received from Andrew Stormont, on 02/05/10 14:29: > My CD drive has died on me (been burning CD's all night) and I still need to > get an OS installed on my Netbook, for my stall.
If it's just about that install on your netbook, you could use UNetbootin to create a bootable usb-drive: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
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