Bootable ISO

[xmf]

Greetings,

If I select the option for a bootable ISO, I'm wondering if/how I will be able to use that disc to complete a full install.

Thank you

[Guest]

You can have nLite burn the files directly to blank media, then use that disc to boot your machine to install Windows. Or, you can have nLite just create the ISO which you can then use without burning to test in a virtual machine, or burn the ISO with your favorite disc burning software and then use that to boot a machine to install Windows.

[xmf]

So, by burning an ISO to a DVD, will I then be able to boot that disc into XP to test out my new nlite creation?

[Guest]

Yes, but that is an expensive way to test. I'd recommend a good virtual machine like VirtualBox or VMware.

[LAndr]

I know it is a old Thread but with the search this one matches best.

I tried to create a bootable XP CD to run a XP directly and live from the CD.

I copied the whole content from a WinXP SP3 CD into a folder on the hard drive.

Installed the actual version of nLite and selected the folder as source folder.

Than i checked only the Bootable ISO Button and created the ISO using defaults.

Than selected the ISO as CD-Drive for a Virtual Machine to test ist.

(afterwards I also tried also on a physical PC with same result)

Starting the machine the CD acts like the Original XP CD and Starts the Normal installer.

there is no boot into a LiveCD

What did I do wrong?

[johnhc]

LAndr, welcome. It is the original CD. You simply used nLite to burn the original CD data into an ISO and then a CD. It had better behave exactly as the original CD. What do you mean by Live CD? Enjoy, John.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

He is talking a live cd like the one you can build using UBCD4win.

nLite cannot do this!

http://www.ubcd4win.com/ <-- This is what you want.

[jaclaz]

Further disambiguation:

you DO NOT run "a XP directly and live from the CD", you run a PE (Pre-installation Environment) derived from the XP install source.

This is NOT XP (though it can be tweaked to look like XP).

To build a PE 1.x (i.e. from XP source, PE 2.x is built from Vista source and PE 3.x from Windows 7 source) you need a PE builder.

There are mainly two of them:

Bart's PEbuilder:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

http://www.911cd.net/

Winbuilder:

http://reboot.pro/forum/22/

UBCD4WIN is a nice pre-configured project making use of Bart's PEbuilder.

The good news are that I lied you can actually build a "real" XP booting from CD, but you won't like the complexity needed to build one and the limitations it has about different hardware:

http://reboot.pro/3890/

jaclaz

[LAndr]

****.

THX.

But what does the bootable means?

[moredelaisla]

Nlite can make a USB Flash Drive Windows XP installation?

[Ponch]

Nlite can make a USB Flash Drive Windows XP installation?

No. nLite transforms a CD in an other (customized) CD. From its home page, nLite is a "Windows (XP) Installation Customiser".

Independantly from the fact you want/need to use nLite or not, there are other tools to do what you want. Check for instance the "Install Windows from USB" forum on this board.

But what does the bootable means?

Bootable means you can start a computer from it (or a virtual machine). In the old days of Win95, you had to boot from a floppy drive to launch the install that was on a CD.

Also "make bootable ISO" is an option because not everybody needs an ISO, sometimes you just need the files for further customisation (or like, see above, to put them on a USB stick). Not that it takes time to make it, but it also takes few additional MB for the file creation.

A "bootable Windows XP installation disc" is still (only) an installation disc. Not a live operating system. What you first did is use nLite on your bootable disc to bring zero customisation to a new disc, which is not exactly what you wanted to do.

I hope it's clearer now that nLite is not at all what you thought it was.

[jaclaz]

Nlite can make a USB Flash Drive Windows XP installation?

NO.

BUT you can find here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/

how to make one (from "normal" or "nlited" source)

jaclaz

Edited December 27, 2010 by jaclaz