MadFly

My dad has 2 truck batteries lying there in the corner of the garage, he has no use for it, so I was wondering how can I put it to use. Seeing that South Africa is suffering from alot of power outages, and somthing called load shedding, I would like to make 1 UPS from those 2 truck batteries. What do I need? What sort of converters and adapters and stuff? And then probably the most important Q of them all, how do I put everything together that once the power is off, I can still run my server and pc's for a few more "hours" or minutes or how ever long those 2 batteries will last, off that UPS made from the 2 truck batteries?

Or alternatively you could just create another partition assuming you have some free space and install '98 on the new partition. If memory servers me correct I have done that a few years back.

can i not make a wim image from the xp cd? like say for example i make a bootable cd with nlite with all settings and everything configured. then i copy the contents of the cd to a folder and then deploy it to any pc on the lan from that folder. or how can i let my server install windows on a new pc with as little effort as possible? like in with just the normal winxpSP2 cd? but without the actual cd... i do hope that the information is sufficient...

yes that is what i was looking for, making the image more hardware independant, so that i can install one image on several totally different machines. will study your guide and try it out. the laptop problem, it developed while the laptop was in use. appearantly some IT guy changed the CRT screen that is attached to the docking station. and after the change the laptop started to reboot all the time. i tried everything that i could think of that might work. so now the laptop is back to the suppliers for repairs. (still under warranty ) thanks...

I have downloaded alot of things required to deploy winxp to other pcs on the network, but i need a .wim image of xp. not completely sure how and with what to create that image. can i make a .wim image that will install on any machine? or does the .wim image created install the drivers and all that as well? drivers and all that from the machine that it was created on? i have a laptop that reboots all the time, when i try safe mode it hangs on mup.sys. tried replacing that file with a working one, and it went a little further. havent tried safemode after replacing the old mup.sys file. can anyone help?