Derek,
The first target machine I tried XPe with was a generic Pentium 200 MMX.
After the first attempt, I scrapped it and have been using PIII or greater
ever since. Older machines are going to have quirky issues because of the
changes in technology. If a target machine can run Windows XP or 2000 there
is a good chance that it will run XPe / WinPE.
Regards,
Sean
"derek laufenberg" <
[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply Sean,
>
> Its an old HP-Vectra I was using as a test system. I've since scrapped it
> so I don't waste any more time with it. The date on the boot bios was
96...
> I don't have XP Pro, I'm using Win 2000 for my development system.
>
> Derek
> "Sean Liming (eMVP)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:#[email protected]...
> > Derek,
> >
> > It would be interesting to note who the PC manufacturer is and what BIOS
+
> > version is used. I haven't found a PC that will not boot WinPE.
> >
> > Have you tried installing XP Professional from CD-ROM? If you install XP
> > Pro, you can than run TAP.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sean Liming
> > www.a7eng.com
> > Author: Windows NT Embedded Step-By-Step and XP Embedded Advanced.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "derek laufenberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Hi David, and everyone
> > >
> > > Getting a "bare bones" system up and running is just what I'm trying
to
> > do.
> > > Does changing the boot media really change the allowed use or lack of
> it?
> > > To be honest, I didn't ready the agreement - does anyone? 
> > >
> > > I tried TA first but the resulting description wasn't good enough.
TAP
> > does
> > > a much better job. I guess I'm getting frustrated with XPe tools.
Just
> > for
> > > comparision, on this same test box it took 30 minutes to setup Linux,
20
> > > minutes to get FreeBSD running and so far 2 days and no luck with XPe
or
> > > WinPE.
> > >
> > > The funny thing is this box will boot the Linux and Freebsd's install
> CD's
> > > no problem, but won't with the XPe boot CD. Any ideas on that? I'll
> take
> > a
> > > look at the CD boot signatures and see what the difference is.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the the help.
> > >
> > > Derek
> > >
> > > "David Reed" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > > news:[email protected]...
> > > > This is not supported by the XPe team or MS. WinPE is a
> > > > different product SKU than XP EMbedded, and has different
> > > > licensing and setup requirements.
> > > >
> > > > The XPe team put a copy of WinPE on the Eval CD ROM to
> > > > assist with getting "bare bones" computers up and running
> > > > with XP Embedded images.
> > > >
> > > > I would run TA.exe from a MS DOS floppy to get
> > > > a "starter" hardware profile for your target image. This
> > > > is usually the best approach for systems that lack CD ROM
> > > > boot support.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > >
> > > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > > >Hi everyone,
> > > > >My target/test box won't boot the XPE cdrom so I wanted
> > > > to put WinPE on a HD
> > > > >which I could boot on the target box. Here is what I
> > > > did:
> > > > >
> > > > >1) Copied the XPE files and directory to my harddrive.
> > > > >2) Copied/renamed SETUPLDR.BIN to ntldr on the root
> > > > directory.
> > > > >3) Remove HD from dev machine and put it in target.
> > > > >4) Power on target.
> > > > >
> > > > >This seems to sort of work, but it stops with an error
> > > > 18 -
> > > > >File \$WIN_NT$.~BT\system32\biosinfo.inf could not be
> > > > loaded.
> > > > >
> > > > >Any ideas or suggestions?
> > > > >
> > > > >Derek
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >.
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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