XP 64bit Setup Disks?

[<SparTacuS>]

I am (re)building my multi-boot XP CD to incorporate versions with the latest hotfixes etc and would like to include the trial 64 bit version of XP that Micro$oft kindly gave away.

However, I am unable to find any boot floppies (I doubt if the exist for a 64 bit system) and I couldn't gets Gosh's W2003 version to work

According to this method

i386\winnt32.exe /noreboot

should allow me to extract the files, but my ISO (DL from MS) doesn't contain this file.

Any use trying the W2003 files?

Any advice greatfully recieved.

[khonjo]

The file you downloaded which has .ISO extention can not be used to install the OS: You have to create(burn) a bootable CDROM out of the downloaded ISO file. Consult your CD burner(NERO, Easy CD Creator, etc.) about how to do it. If it is Easy CD Creator, I can help you further.

[<SparTacuS>]

Yea, guess you missunderstood,

The files are already extracted from the ISO so that they can be

updated, prepared for unattended etc but most importantly

ADDED to my multi-boot CD.

My CDs use CDShell and BCDW to boot to a screen such as the one attached.

I have a whole series of these on CDR one for DOS upto 95, 98 through to ME,

2000 series, XP series, 2003 series, and one for the Longhorn Betas.

If you want to see how to do it yourself see the guide here

Flyakite's Guide

My problem is that I require setup files to initiate the boot process from the menu and I have usually used the setup floppies to do this.

Thanx anyway for trying

[gosh]

WHy would you want to add it? To use 64 bit windows you need a 64 bit processor and at least 1 gig of RAM i believe. You also use EFI instead of a BIOS. I don't see why you would want that on a cd.

-gosh

[<SparTacuS>]

Hi Gosh

Like many folks I have a wide variety of machines to maintain and I just like to keep stuff where I can get at it easily. It seemed to complete the set for XP.

(Besides, my wife says that I am a compulsive - she didn't say a compulsive what?)