Thread: Super small XP install

I beleive you have to use something in addition to what's been accomplished here. Google for El Torito.
The main difference is CD's don't use Fat32 or NTFS.

This is pretty great guys!!! Now I feel like giving it a shot. I do see why you guys are cutting down the size of the OS, but I never had an issue with hibernating the carputer. I'm running GPS, XM, USB RF keyboard, Win XP Pro sp1, usb wireless g network adapter, 7" touch screen, Epia M10000, 256 DDR RAM, Media Engine and Frodo player, and click and type on screen keyboard. The carputer is set to hibernate when the car is shut off and kills the power to everything . My boot time coming back from hibernating is less then 20 seconds. Granted my HD could die one day from the cold, I have all my songs and files backed up on my laptop. I should make a image file of the HD and store it on a disc come to think of it.

Originally Posted by grepzen

this is a GREAT thread guys thanks!

Once the install is below 700M, is it possible to write a bootable image to CD and boot from CD? --I'm hoping to do a 'live' cd install like Knoppix --if you're familiar w/ it.

You might want to look at BART PE, made by the same guy who updates the eltorito.sys generic CD-ROM driver. He just released 3.1.3 of BART PE.

*edit - I suppose I should actually PUT the link up... I'm an idiot...

http://www.nu2.nu

Why can't you try something like WinXP Lite ? It says XP can be placed on 350Mb. I'm pretty much sure it can be even smaller.

...or nLite which does the same thing, but it's free.

New version of nLite release - beta 7 ... now removes a few extra things ....

general
Windows 2003 Standard and Web Server support
Windows 2000 Server support
Wmp Compatibility option returned
Unattended Display settings
Remembering of last path and page selection
fix: SATA/RAID driver integration (Fasttrak Lite and some others)
fix: Slipstream (simplified for the time being)
fix: missing integrated driver files on manual install
fix: driver integration folder indexing bug
fix: driver integration from CD/DVD
some laguages updated
components
new: Windows Image Acquisition
new: Windows Scripting Host
upgraded: Network DDE
upgraded: ClipBook
upgraded: Event Log
upgraded: WMI
merged: Printer and Server Printer support
fix: Camera Drivers disables camera install
fix: Scanner Drivers disables camera install
fix: missing snmpapi.dll, mapi32.dll
fix: Netmeeting (reg leftovers)
fix: Internet Explorer (user accounts)
fix: Internet Explorer Core (DCOM Service)


MSFN.org going down later today at 23:00 CET for a server upgrade - will be unavailable for 24 hours.

I got my CF adapter today...damn fees:

$31.25 Intl shipping
$6.25 Intl credit card fee
$8 brokerage
$4 GST
$1.50 currency conversion
FEE TOTAL: $51

So, $51 in fees on a $57 item

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That's insane!! Isn't there a Canadian site that sells CF adapters??

oh you know how those crazy canadians are...