All of the above, but from linux?

[brijones]

I want to be able to make a bootable usb stick for installing win xp. My issue is, all of the guides mentioned above only function from within windows. There is a complete lack of any guides to do this from within linux. The problem is, if I search google, I come up with ways to make it for installing windows from windows, I come up with ways of installing linux from linux, but no methods to install windows from linux. To do this, I first need to extract the el torito from the iso, and then somehow place it on the usb stick. I have tried using the dd command, and just screwed up the usb stick.

I have noted another thread which suggests using syslinux, but I find the information to be very hard to understand. If there is any advice available out there, it would be most welcome.

[jaclaz]

I want to be able to make a bootable usb stick for installing win xp. My issue is, all of the guides mentioned above only function from within windows. There is a complete lack of any guides to do this from within linux. The problem is, if I search google, I come up with ways to make it for installing windows from windows, I come up with ways of installing linux from linux, but no methods to install windows from linux. To do this, I first need to extract the el torito from the iso, and then somehow place it on the usb stick. I have tried using the dd command, and just screwed up the usb stick.

I have noted another thread which suggests using syslinux, but I find the information to be very hard to understand. If there is any advice available out there, it would be most welcome.

If I may, you are trying to do a rather complex (but as seen not impossible ) thing from anothe OS that you know NOTHING (or very little) about.

If you really attempted to dd from a .iso to a USB stick, you, no offence whatsoever intended , lack the minimal basic knowledge on how a .iso and a USB stick actually work and boot.

I do suspect that this lack of knowledge (again, nothing "bad" in it) extends also to the XP side.

ANY knowledgeable Linux user can take the BATCH based USB_multiboot.cmd:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=111406

and "translate" it's contents in to BASH or whatever scripting language.

As well, an expert Linux user can read the "historical" thread that contains most (if not all) the needed info:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384

In other words all the nice apps/batches/whatever you can find here are nothing but an automated way to repeat the steps you can do manually (and that you can replicate on another running OS).

But, all in all, WHAT is the reason WHY you would want to do this from Linux?

I mean, you need anyway a Windows XP install CD.

You can install XP in a VM under Linux and use the "windows programs" to create the USB stick allright.

jaclaz