jaclaz

Just for the record, since you have to re-burn the CD anyway, this method initially devised by d4vr0s: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20543 works very well, at least for a limited number of machines, eliminating the actual USB floppy drive. Basically you re-create the CD using a bootloader (I use grldr directly) instead of the "standard" "Microsoft Corporation.img" or "Arnes Boot record", and you add to the CD the needed floppy image(s), which can also be gzipped and thus will occupy a very small amount of space on cd. jaclaz

Can I try and make it four-dimensional? Since I see there are still men doing their bytes "the old way" : http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/2007022507..._in_my_day.html Can you check my report on this patch for "better" LBA compatibility: http://www.msfn.org/board/Patched-IOSYS-fo...ME-t118119.html scrumpyjack jaclaz

Happy the problem is solved. For the record, migrate.inf is a file normally used by 2K/XP setup when run from another NT/2K/XP install by running WINNT32.EXE where the information about drive letters of the other (already installed) NT/2K/XP are kept, so that the new install uses the same drive letters. FYI: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234048/en-us http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 jaclaz

A reply with the solution was made here : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=4754&st=10 (though I don't seem to find the address in order to try and replicate it) jaclaz

Installng from CD or DVD or installing from USB device (stick or hard disk) is different. Check the "historical" thread here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html http://www.msfn.org/board/How-to-boot-inst...key-t61384.html to see how the problem of drive letter assigning was solved (for a "normal" install), maybe there is something in there that you can use, like migrate.inf. jaclaz

Just for the record, you could use WUBI allright: http://wubi-installer.org/ The ubuntu is installed within a virtual disk file, with only minor drawbacks: http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php jaclaz

Apart the Chewbacca Defense, which was a nice read , I see nothing that makes no sense : 1. A user posts a question 2. Noone is able to give him a simple and working solution 3. He finds the solution himself, the hard way (hexediting a system file) The only thing he did I wouldn't have done is to post on three different forums the same question. jaclaz

Fixed. jaclaz

JO.SYS is the file that allows for "press any key to boot from CD" (or something like that) on Windows 9x 98/Me CD's. There is an "original" one and a "free" version by Bart Lagerwej. Read the referenced thread on boot-land. jaclaz

for the record, scrumpyjack seems to have found a way to solve his problem by patching IO.SYS: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4754 jaclaz

Just stumbled on this: http://home.exetel.com.au/phelum/w98.htm Maybe mdgx or any of the other W9x/Me gurus can comment/confirm? jaclaz

"strange noises" do not fit well with the "problem in motherboard" theory. Try this: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ Victoria: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.03-Victoria/ MHDD: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ jaclaz

I see it more as a lack of "google-fu". Look at what you can find by searching for " site:www.msfn.org nlite disable pagefile" (without quotes): http://www.msfn.org/board/Option-to-disabl...le-t106761.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Disable-pagefile...-f-t109566.html As you can see, there are different feelings about having the pagefile enabled or not enabled, and curiously enough, this particular topic tends to become often a debate, of the type 98 vs. XP, NTFS vs. FAT32, Mickey Mouse vs. Godzilla, etc. In the first of the given links there is nuhi's reasons for why it is not an option in nlite. About the communication problem, this: though it might be your sincere take on the way any user of the forum should behave, it can be easily considered unpolite and unneededly hostile or authoritative. If anyone goes astray from how you planned the thread should evolve, it is basically your problem, you can create your own board, proclamate yourself supreme moderator of it and thus manage the topics in it as you wish, or hire a consultant to which you may be able to ask questions and possibly give him orders on how he should reply. If you ask a question on a public forum, you will get: 1) some good replies 2) some bad replies 3) some out of focus replies If you ask the same question on the same forum, telling what the would-be-repliers should do, you will get: 1) some good replies (same as before) 2) some bad replies (same as before) 3) some out of focus replies (same as before) ADDITIONALLY, you will get: 4) some replies (like mine ) trying to tell you where you might be wrong in your approach 5) some hostile replies from people simply offended by your attitude Everyone here tries to his best to contribute something in terms of knowledge, experience or even speculative ideas, and within the limits given by the Rules of the board, there is total freedom, if anyone has "time to waste" it should not be a concern for you. Simply skip or ignore the replies not relevant to what you asked and take it easy.... ...don't post your own "rules" about what people should do.... .... and I would guess your 90% statistics will drop..... jaclaz

A list of apps is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Disk-Imaging-Software-t100299.html jaclaz

(hd0) means First drive (Drive 0) (hd0,0) Means First Partition (Partition 0) of First drive (hd1,0) Means First Partition (Partition 0) of Second drive (Drive 1) (hd1,1) Means Second Partition (Partition 1) of Second drive (Drive 1) ..... About the Fedora thing, what ilko_t suggested is to assign a LABEL to the partition: http://www.ss64.com/nt/label.html http://www.ss64.com/nt/vol.html http://lissot.net/partition/ext2fs/labels.html What you see in an Explorer window beside the drive letter. jaclaz

Most probably 90% of people that reply are rude or simply not at your same level. You could try stepping down a bit, or try to educate this 90% of people. My guess is that first of the two options is easier to put in practice. jaclaz

@ilko_t You can also use my standard reply #32, free of charge, of course! http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2587 jaclaz

Right question. Wrong forum. Right one is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html But you first need to "re-build" an install CD, or at least make sure you do have all needed files. Start from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/nlite-with-no-wi...cd-t113480.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Cannot-access-CD...P-i-t91907.html jaclaz

These don't make sense: You first make root on whatever drive/partition has grldr in root. Then you make root (hd0,0). Current root is of course determined by last root command issued. jaclaz

Hey, by any chance are you not a re-incarnation of forkart or bartle? http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1297 I am sure you are not , but maybe you should add that it is a Commercial app that costs about 20 Euros or 30 US$. And that there are other ways to make a booteble .iso: http://www.msfn.org/board/Bootable-Vista-DVD-t88281.html and that vlite can do it as well: http://www.vlite.net/ @nikocronaldo From the screenshot you posted it does not seem to me that you have the "right" files, maybe it is possible to use them, but cannot say how. jaclaz

Since you are using Easyboot, which is a Commercial app, won't it be easier to ask for support to the makers: http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/ http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/support.htm jaclaz

Which means here : http://www.msfn.org/board/How-to-Change-Mo...en-t113048.html (second page won't be second forever , posting a link will help better ) @Viesto Care to give some more info on WHAT to hexedit in SETUPLDR.BIN? jaclaz

It depends on the hardware. Some motherboards only have USB 1.1 speed enabled controllers. Some motherboards have USB 2.0 speed enabled controllers, but their BIOS only supports booting at USB 1.1 speed. Most recent motherboards have USB 2.0 enabled controllers and have BIOS that uses USB 2.0 speed when booting. On the other hand common ATA/ATAPI dvd drives are rather fast, whilst USB flash sticks can have very different speeds, depending on the controller or flash memory chips they use. See this comparison: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/di...sh-roundup.html As I see it, however the carrying convenience (size and robustness) and the possibility to easily change/amend contents of USB sticks makes them a better choice. Apart from that, I have seen tens of machines (expecially PC's used in offices) where the dvd drive was dirty, clogged with dust, or however unable to read properly a burned DVD. Installing from a flash drive however, is not as "easy" as from CD/DVD, which has been documented, troubleshooted and fine-tuned for years, but relatively recently, a (supposedly ) foolproof method was devised, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html which still has some limit/problem, but that is actively fixed and enhanced as soon as problems are found. jaclaz

Basically, yes. You will probably need to install all programs two times, one from booted OS #1 and once from booted OS #2, so that their install packages create the appropriate Registry entries. You can avoid that using as much as you can portable apps. The above is NOT recommended for antivirus or similar software that use auto update features, as the update files (virus definitions, etc.) may become "out of sync" and create a mess. Sure, once you have changed something in a file, it remains changed. jaclaz

Just for the record, it is basically what has been already described here : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 which actually, due to a few shortcomings of the method, originated the "search for a better way", that ended up with the USB multiboot. Happy you made it, one way or the other. jaclaz