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- Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:55 am
- Forum: UBCD V5 Tutorials & How-Tos
- Topic: Installing Windows XP on Acer AspireOne ZA3 netbook
- Replies: 3
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Re: Installing Windows XP on Acer AspireOne ZA3 netbook
Next time you can try to partition the disk with GParted (included inside Parted Magic) and copy the files to the partition from there. The copying of the files will be much faster in linux than in dos. At which step? 'Cause the "install UBCD to hard drive" step was done in the linux boot...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:59 pm
- Forum: UBCD V5 Tutorials & How-Tos
- Topic: Create a bootable USB flash drive using UBCD iso
- Replies: 11
- Views: 365174
Re: Create a bootable USB flash drive using UBCD iso
This is much simpler under Linux (or perhaps I've been using Linux long enough that it's warped my idea of simple :P) -- just look in ubcd/tools/linux/ubcd2usb and follow the readme. Basically: 0. partition the USB stick 1. mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1 2. dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX 3. syslinux the USB stick (...
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:56 pm
- Forum: UBCD V5 Tutorials & How-Tos
- Topic: Installing Windows XP on Acer AspireOne ZA3 netbook
- Replies: 3
- Views: 61900
Installing Windows XP on Acer AspireOne ZA3 netbook
A friend recently bought an Acer AspireOne at a clearance sale -- this particular one was seriously discounted because it had Vista on it. Anyway, she wanted XP, as she didn't want to deal with Vista or the dumptruck load of absolute garbage that comes preinstalled on these things. (Seriously, if yo...