Re: XyWrite/NB with BartPE

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 07:16 PM 5/28/2007, J R FOX wrote:

--- Michael Norman  wrote:
I was about to do a first attempt at making a Bart PE
disk when I ran out of time, and had to go out of
town. I think I got the prerequisites out of the way,
which from what I had read involved having an XP boot
partition *at SP2 level.*


Robert points out that you don't need SP2. He says, "an SP1+ \I386
dir is by far the simplest way to go -- and the fastest."



Anyway, both my W2K and XP were put on from Corporate
Edition install CDs by me, not there as pre-installs.
I'm well aware that Bart can only be done from a fully
installed XP, but in *neither* opsys do I see an \I386
directory right off of the root.


I'm not sure about that edition, Jordan. I used a multi-install
site-license disk.



 W2K has a \WINNT\Driver Cache\I386 directory -- about 70 meg.s
worth, ever since SP4 went on quite a long time ago.
I believe there is a somewhat differently named \I386
directory on XP, which is also about 3 levels down off
the root, and I think that currently hold about 285
meg.s worth of content. I probably can't quote this
exactly until I return in a week or so. Someone has a
laptop here with XP on it, but it is a pre-load.


Perhaps RH has experience with these editions and iterations of I386 folders.



I printed out the pages you linked for us, and hope
this will turn out to be as straightforward as you had
indicated.


I followed the script most of the way. I did not add drivers or
network support. For the most part, I simply wanted a reliable
alternative to the Acronis Unix boot disk. So of course I added the
Acronis plug-in, which had a bug, naturally.



 Otherwise, I will have to do some
slipstreaming, I guess, and rearrange the furniture.


Well, maybe. Again I'm just guessing, but if you still have access to
those Corporate CD install disks, why not copy the contents of the XP
disk to a folder called WinXP and try the script I followed.



There are several plugins that will be of interest,
starting with FireFox (getting this closer to some
things the Knoppix cd can do), and replacing that
Acronis plugin that never worked on their own cd.


Go here for one that works.
http://www.mechrest.com/plugins/index.html. Several iterations
available. I've tested the one for Acronis 10 Home. There's also a
fix for the one on the Acronis Web site, if you prefer. I'll see if I
can find it.



 A Xy plugin would be great. Presumably this will take
some cues from the "Portable Xy" type of setup, so
that there are no hardwired locations to trip over.


Yes, it would be helpful to have a plain text editor on a boot CD.

Michael Norman