How to trim and install Windows XP without a CD-ROM drive
Posted by Brad Linder at Sunday, December 23, 2007
Now that I've got eeeXubuntu installed on my 4GB SD card, I figured I might as well try installing Windows XP on my Eee PC's main memory. After all, even if I royally mess things up, there's zero chance of ending up with an unbootable machine unless I lose my SD card.
But there are just two problems:
- I don't want Windows XP to eat up more than half of my computer's solid state disk
- I don't have a USB CD/DVD-ROM drive
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Nick from eeetutorials here, I've heard back from some of my visitors that nlite installation work with my guide as long as you don't remove the manual installation files. Nice site btw :)
thanks for the write up. would you pl inform how to get this"Eee PC that can boot into Windows XP or eeeXubuntu." meaning Win XP as well as EEEXubuntu. by the way how much disk space is LEFT after having 2 OS.is that psbl to have XP alone & then add Linux.Any option for having one OS in SD card & boot from that. pl clarify.thanks
All you have to do is follow the steps in this article to install XP on your main memory and install eeeXubuntu onto an SD card:
http://eeesite.net/2007/12/eeexubuntu-install-xubuntu-easy-way.html
The net result is a dual boot system with XP running from the SSD, and Xubuntu running from an SD card. The way I've configured XP, it takes up just over a gig with a dozen or so programs installed, leaving nearly 3GB for storage. Since Xubuntu is installed on an SD card, it doesn't take up any of my main storage space at all.
thank you sooooo much. This must have taken you a while to figure out. I'm glad I stumbled across this. You saved me a ton of time!
It is really important to remove that virtual memory/swap file even if you do not have much ram installed. Solid State drives wear out fast with write cycles.
Thanks for a great sight. I am going to try your link to the 1000 video resolution tonight. I will post photos of my results in a few hours.
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I used Nlite then just connected a USB to IDE adapter to an old CDROM. Then I moved "My Documents" temporary internet files, and all my new installation disks onto the second HD of my EEE 900. It was really slick
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