+700mb WinXP iso's to fit on (2) cds

[anonyroot]

Great Kudos for the wealth of information on this site.

I am having the problem of finding any reference in putting the installation iso into more than one compact disk (CD). I have used the search button over the past 2 days with no luck of finding the subject.

The quick solution is to burn it to an DVD. I have been successful in the DVD world. My reasoning for forcing my XP install to go on compact disks instead of DVD's is that I still have one desktop and one laptop both running with CDRW drives in my home. Compact disks just makes a little more on the ease of admin'ing these older machines.

Community, if you can please assist me out this I would greatly appreciate it. Even a point [link] in the right direction would be a world of help.

Thanks.

[jaclaz]

See here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/burn-900-mb-cd-t56028.html

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16068

If the size is very near to 700 Mb, a 700Mb "normal" CD (as opposed to the 650 Mb ones) may be overburned a little.

If it's noticeably bigger than 700 Mb buy a bigger CD, or reduce the source.

How do you manage to get to 700 Mb?

I mean, there may be parts that are not "optimized" or maybe you have "duplicates" files.

http://www.msfn.org/board/make-cd-take-dat...pid-771290.html

jaclaz

[g-force]

Maybe nLite is your solution to shrink your XPCD.

Just give it a try: http://www.msfn.org/board/nlite-f89.html

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

you can trim quite a bit off XP without using nlite. see this for more info:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/57/

if DVD isnt an option you could look into install from USB 1-2gb USB drives are super cheap these days if your bios can boot from them

http://www.msfn.org/board/install-xp-usb-f157.html