spatz23

Thanks for the fast answer! Thx for the hints, I'll try to figure them out soon... Not right now, will a VirtualBOX help? or maybe WINE?

Hi, i've got a really old Computer, with a non-functional CD-Rom Drive, USB works, but is not bootable for some reason (No BIOS update available) I found an old 80GB Harddisk, got it attached to my Linux box formatted it with NTFS... set bootable flag with fdisk. Now, is it possible to install WinXP onto that HD, e.g. copy the installer from the orig XP CD to the HD, make it bootable, then put it back into the OldComputer to boot into the Installer? -- spatz23

hi, i just tried out the 1.0 beta7, but i got a problem: at first i tweaked the original XP install a bit with nlite (1.4.9.1) added sp3, some drivers for my board, chipset, lan, audio, then some unattended features like network settings and users. i get the "hal.dll not found or damaged" message after the first reboot to second stage. i got 4 partitions, 1. linux 2. data 3. data 4. free all primary, created with linux fdisk trying to install xp to partition 4 i read about the boot.ini fix, but i could not find one on the usb stick its probably only for the stable version i guess... as the second try i used the original XP without using nlite, and it worked perfectly ciao, spatz23