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XP CD bootdisk for terminal

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by _david, 2004/10/13.

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  1. 2004/10/13
    _david

    _david Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi! I'm trying to setup a laptop with a bad hdd as a terminal in our warehouse, to log employee time and do some inventory tracking. I need to burn a bootable XP cd for that computer, but I'm not sure exactly what to do. Any ideas?

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    With no hard drive, you have no burner software so you won't be writing anything, just reading your bootable CD creation. I doubt that will be what you want. Sorry. :( You could make do with the floppy drive maybe, assuming it has one?
     
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  4. 2004/10/22
    _david

    _david Inactive Thread Starter

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    Can I just dd an install of XP on CD and then boot from that... I'll just have to start putting this together and then maybe post a more specific question. It's got a floppy drive. If I can't do this I guess I can just try to instal linux onto a floppy and maybe write some basic console GUI or something...

    As long as linux could do the wireless networking. That's probably a better bet than trying to do this windows.

    Thanks for your help!
     
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  5. 2004/10/22
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    There are tons of existing Linus "thin clients" you can download as iso's and burn to a cd. These will boot the system from the cd and the os & apps run in ram. Config changes can be made and saved to a floppy. Many of these clients a;lready have X-windows and a simple window manager like fluxbox or twm.
    Look here:
    http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
     
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  6. 2004/10/26
    _david

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    I'm going to try to GNUstep one... hopefully it'll support the wireless adapter I have on that machine.

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