The 6 boot floppies are nothing special. It's just the same program that starts up when you boot from the CD, but all the files are spread out onto floppies.
I have an old machine at home that I installed XP on from the boot floppies because it didn't boot from CD-ROM.
One thing that might help you - I think it was a previous version of debian had some floppy disk images on the cd. Once of them had some sort of boot manager that would allow you to boot from the floppy, hard drive, or CD-ROM (even if your BIOS didn't support it). I think it was originally intended for some sort of network boot, but the fact that I could make it boot from a CD-ROM even when my bios didn't support it was cool.
You might try that with your Bart-PE disk. Boot from the debian floppy, insert your Bart-PE disk, select boot from CD-ROM, and off you go. :)
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To: "Gerhard Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about backing machines up? |
I only asked about Bart's pe because I use it as a "recovery/install"
medium. I have an issue and that is my SP2'ed Bart's PE (slipstreamed
os and the merged into bart's fork files) cdrom; iso is about 689MiB
anyways the older machines do *not know how to boot from cdrom* take
like my old machine its bios doesn't have a clue what bootable cdrom is.
Well I'd like to modify the floppy set; instead of running winnt32 or
whatever it does just run the boot sequence for pe....here is a link to
the *six* floppies for XPprosp2 (home is different url)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=535d248d-5e10-4
9b5-b80c-0a0205368124&displaylang=en
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The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM
to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP
startup disk will automatically load the correct drivers to gain access
to the CD-ROM drive and start a new installation of Setup.
**SNIPPED**
Anyone have any time free to "check this out?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Gerhard Hofmann
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Windows post-install looking good, how about
backing machines up?
Matthew J. Harmon wrote:
> Alright, so making some great headway on the Unattended install, thank
> you to everyone[0] who responded with my questions about the Windows
> post install. The issue I was running into was the the 8.3 filenames,
> I decided to try and make directories descriptive.
>
> Also, Lewis brought up "bart's pe?", what is that?
Bart's PE Builder is a free software that can create a Windows-XP-based
environment that completely runs from CD, no installation needed, it's
like Knoppix, but Windows based. Look here:
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
>
> To the question, I am now in the part of the install which will
> require imaging machines that people already have used. So, most
> would like to backup their data - prior to it being blown away. Any
> recommendations on how to go about this, and still do a clean install?
>
We usually use two partitions, C: for OS and programms, D: for user data
like excel sheet, winword documents and so on. Assuming every user keeps
his own stuff on D: drive only, you can configure unattended just to
wipe out C: and leave D: untouched, have a look at the thread "just
format drive c: and leave other partition untouched..." that was
originated by me.
Of course it's a little bit difficult to strictly separate system data
from user data. For example, I always tweak MS-Outlook to store it's PST
files on drive D:, but I don't care about MSIEs favorites that are
stored somewhere in c:\documents and settings.
This procedure turned out to work well before reinstalling a PC:
- tell the user to move all "important data" to drive d:, let user
decide what "important" means
- make a complete backup of all hdd partitions with an imaging tool like
Ghost, Drive Image or True Image. External USB disks with capacities
of 80 GB and above are inexpensive these days and are fine for storing
complete PC backups
- keep the full backup in a safe place
- reinstall the PC
- wait a few weeks (or months), if user doesn't claim about missing
things you can delete the backup
HTH
Gerhard
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