Install XP on aspire one

[Serp86]

Hi

Sorry if this has been covered before, but i searched and nothing turned up.

Anyway, I recently got an aspire one 150L, and the linux installation just wasn't customizable enough for me. Therefore I installed vista using a USB stick (used an xcopy command from another vista computer to copy everything onto the USB drive), and the install worked flawlessly. However, vista is somewhat too bulky for this, and so I was going to try XP. However, the xcopy command I used to make the vista USB install drive does not work for xp. The bios does not detect the drive as a valid bootable one.

I tried searching for some guides, but the one I found made use of windows 2003 installation files which i need to add to the xp installation, and I do not have a copy of 2003 available.

Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot

 

[JesseKnows]

I recently needed to install XP on a CD-less system. I could copy files to the HDD, but only boot from floppy or from HDD, not CD.
The only way that worked for me was to boot from floppy and format FAT32 for Windows 98. I then copied in the Win98 files and installed it. Then I copied in the XP i386 directory and ran the XP install from within 98.
I do not know the details of the Aspire, but maybe you can do the same using the USB stick instead of floppy.

 

[MoMeanMugs]

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