Barebones

[Rich Albright]

Just bought a barebones system and tried to load windows XP (Home), but
system shuts down once the setup disk loads all the drivers as if it were
starting the install process. I have connected everything correctly (i.e. cd
and dvd, hdd, ram, floppy, etc). I know i need to partition the drive, but
can figure out how to create a XP startup floppy that contains the fdisk
command. Can any help? thnkz

 

[squiggy]

Also, does it matter if the XP home is a copy (not currently being used on
orig pc) that is being used for this install?

 

[Ken]

Also, does it matter if the XP home is a copy (not currently being used on
orig pc) that is being used for this install?

You are not using an OEM Windows XP CD, are you?? If you are, the
hardware must match that in the original computer or it will not work.

 

[squiggy]

Thanks, Ken. Yes, I was trying to be cheap out about the thing. Guess I'll
go out and get XP Pro.

 

[sdeyoreo]

Thanks, Ken. Yes, I was trying to be cheap out about the thing. Guess I'll
go out and get XP Pro.

With XP, no need for fdisk on a floppy. With a brand new, clean HD,
put XP disk in CD, strat and XP will do everything. In XP pro, you get
IIS, Internet Information Services WebServer software. You can run
like a web server, run server-side stuff like ASP... Real cool.

 

[spodosaurus]

You are not using an OEM Windows XP CD, are you?? If you are, the
hardware must match that in the original computer or it will not work.

That's not correct. I have an OEM Win XP CD and it's OEM for a white box
generic computer. What you mean is a proprietary OEM distro, like from
Compaq or IBM atc.

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[Fuckknuckle]

Also, does it matter if the XP home is a copy (not currently being used on
orig pc) that is being used for this install?

You can search Microsoft for a link to XP Home startup disks. I think it
takes 6 floppies.
If it's an OEM CD, you're probably going to have some problems, Squiggly.

 

[squiggy]

As advised from another group I downloaded an XP setup disk program (from
Microsoft) to create
the six setup disks. However, after I bootup and the disks start to load, my
system shuts down (turns off) when I reach disk 6. Disk 6 contains the
following:
SYSTEM32 (folder) - SMSS.EXE and NTDLL.DLL
DISK106
KBDUS.DLL
SPCMDCON.SYS

BIOS is configured with just everything shut off but the essentials and only
a cdrom, HD, and floppy installed.

Any ideas?