[How-To]NanoXP

[Nuno Brito]

Open Builder distribution comes with two projects under active development at this moment: nanoXP and standard.

This thread only mentions nanoXP, because it is only meant to provide a small console with hardware support - it's sort of a fun discussion to see how small things can get..

However, this was all based on the standard project wich aims to build 45~55Mb ISO's - mostly intended to create very fast rescue boot disks running from CD/USB drives

LiteStep is a good shell, but we've been using xoblite because it was updated more often.

Using some of the experiments from nanoXP, the standard project can now also be reduced significantly, but it's still necessary to add suport for more programs before starting to reduce the final size - a lot of work and testings still need to be done - we really need more help on it.. any volunters?

Here are a few screenshots:

The standard project, using xoblite as default shell including a few more apps..

And the latest works using explorer as default shell..

This is mostly usefull to learn how to do this sort of things using any common windows XP/2003.

These scripts are easy to read and understand, the goal here is provide as much information as possible to let others know what can really be achieved with these boot disks.

[bledd]

this is a really cool project, keep it coming

[Nuno Brito]

The boot land forums have a new location, unfortunately the previous databases could not be retrieved to add all previous postings, while the whole site is in contruction progress and all projects get re-updated, both forums will coexist, but new questions should be placed in the new link in order to keep track of developments.

http://www.Boot-Land.net/forums

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the support..

[Nuno Brito]

A few more improvements have been added, the standard project can now use a windows 2003 CD as source and produce a 48Mb ISO that will boot and run from RAM and also use explorer as the default shell and filemanager.

We need some help on getting the network functions to work, since I have no expertise on these matters, can anyone help us getting this to work?

In the meanwhile boot land has also available a wiki for those wanting to know a little bit more about openbuilder:

Openbuilder wiki

And hopefully clear some doubts to make things much easier to use.

The program itself has been recently updated to build 047.

psc, a talented user from our forum has also introduced his project: picoXP, wich intends to get even smaller results than those achieved from nanoXP, he's already getting his ISO smaller almost one 1Mb (at 13Mb boot ISO), but promisses to go even further..

here's the link for his work:

Development

Have fun!