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New MessageBooting XP? (modified 0 times) dragin33
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I loaded the XP setup files (through the regular setup program) onto my IO drive and then moved the drive into the IO so that windows could set up on the IO. Windows starts to boot with the little white line at the bottom but just freezes after that. Does anyone have any suggestions. How did you get windows xp onto the IOpener?
02-11-2004 16:44:07

New MessageRE:Booting XP? (modified 0 times) ztw4
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Don't think that will work reliably, swapping a drive mid-install like that. Even that early, the setup files are geared for the particular chipset.

Honestly, I believe the best way is to use peace's method as described in an earlier thread, which is to install XP on the hard drive in another system, boot with SAFE mode, go into the hardware profile and change the IDE controller to "standard" plus remove any chipset-related devices (i.e. sound, video, etc.), THEN power down and swap the drive into your I-Opener. The link with details is:

http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=whatever&Post=2232&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=1&Session=

Admittedly, I've not tried it on any of my own I-Openers, but I *have* used it several times for motherboard upgrades, and I believe the principle is sound. One item to remember: putting the latest drivers you can find for all onboard or external devices into a separate folder on the hard drive *before* you swap it will make your life much easier. Especially helpful with the I-Opener's lack of external drives.

02-17-2004 10:17:04

New MessageRE:Booting XP? (modified 0 times) XFan
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There is a much easier method than this and I successfully installed WinXP Pro and Win2000 on two I-openers and a Virgin Webplayer (Dual Boot Win2000 and WinXP Pro) without any problems. Attach the laptop hdd to a regular IDE controller with a 40PIN - to 44PIN adapter in a regular desktop PC. Autodetect the drive in the BIOS, fdisk the drive, format it (FAT32) and then sys it so you can boot once it is installed in the I-opener. Create a directory Win98 and move the Win98SE cabinet files into this directory. Create another directory I386 and copy the WinXP Pro cabinet into this directory. Add the SETUP files in the root directory of the WinXP Pro CD to this directory as well. Create a directory for the drivers and copy all drivers needed (especially USB NIC drivers) and some Utilties (Winzip) to the drive.

Remove the hdd from the desktop and install it in the I-opener. Autodetect it in the I-opener's BIOS, and then boot from it. You should see a C:\> prompt. cd to the Win98 directory and launch the installer (SETUP). Install Win98SE and configure all drivers. Then when all is configured, while in the Win98 GUI, start the SETUP program in the I386 directory that contains the WinXP Pro cabinet files. The SETUP will recommend an Upgrade and will then start the install of WinXP Pro. The advantage of doing it within the GUI is that the memory management is better and the install performs faster (still almost 90 minutes on average). Because of the previous configured Win98SE drivers, WinXP will correctly install drivers for the I-opener except for the Video driver. Don't worry if after the first reboot you see a WinXP Pro install screen in VGA 16 mode. It will fix itself at the next boot. When finished you can then install the Cyberblade driver for Win2000 - works great. Afterwards you can change the filesystem to NTFS with the CONVERT command.

Another method that I used was to completely install Win98SE on an I-opener with a Linksys USB NIC and then connect to a shared CD drive on a desktop PC. Launched the SETUP program of the CD via the network within the Win98SE GUI. It was a little slower but worked the same as described above. Hope this helps.


XFan
02-17-2004 23:26:24

New MessageRE:Booting XP? (modified 0 times) XFan
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I forgot to mention, for these installation methods to work, make sure you have at least 128MB RAM installed, better even 256MB RAM.
XFan
02-17-2004 23:27:57

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