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Brian Schau
Hello,
I am in the process of creating a Kiosk version of Windows XP Embedded for
a HP T5700 Thin Client.
As this is my first time working with thin client I thought the best strategy
would be to start the whole process by creating a default image which could
boot the T5700 with support for whatever hardware needs to be supported.
This, I felt, would give me an idea of how to use the various tools. Then,
when I felt more comfortabel with the tools, I could go ahead and concentrate
on creating a Kiosk version.
But alas, somewhere along the process I have failed :-( When booting my
T5700 I get a "disk read error".
This is my 13 steps to disaster:
1) On the original installation I ran tap.exe to get a devices.pmq file.
2) This I imported to the Target Designer (TD).
3) Resolved dependencies.
4) Build image to a separate partition.
5) Create a sdi image of 90MB, around 13 MB more than needed - but less than
the total of 256MB available on the T5700. I used the SDI Loader to create
the file.
6) In DiskManager I set the disk file "online". I created a partition,
formatted it as NTFS and set the partition Active.
7) Then I used explorer to copy all files from my image-partition to the
sdi-file.
8) In the SDI Loader I removed the disk.
9) I then booted the T5700 using a standard windows 98 boot disk.
10) I created a partition using fdisk which spawns the entire disk. I set this
partition active. Rebooted the T5700 and formatted the newly created C:
disk.
11) Then I ran bootprep /dC to enable to boot of windows XP from NTFS
partitions.
12) I used sdi2hd d:\t5700img.sdi to transfer the sdi image - it completes
without errors.
13) A reboot gives: "A disk read error occurred".
So - 13 steps ... that ofcourse, will make things go wrong ;-) What am I
doing wrong?
From the docs I get that step 10+11 is not necessary - the sdi image contains
whatever is needed to load the operating system ... So I've tried to omit
step 10+11 - but that still doesn't work.
Any help is welcome!
Kind regards,
Brian
I am in the process of creating a Kiosk version of Windows XP Embedded for
a HP T5700 Thin Client.
As this is my first time working with thin client I thought the best strategy
would be to start the whole process by creating a default image which could
boot the T5700 with support for whatever hardware needs to be supported.
This, I felt, would give me an idea of how to use the various tools. Then,
when I felt more comfortabel with the tools, I could go ahead and concentrate
on creating a Kiosk version.
But alas, somewhere along the process I have failed :-( When booting my
T5700 I get a "disk read error".
This is my 13 steps to disaster:
1) On the original installation I ran tap.exe to get a devices.pmq file.
2) This I imported to the Target Designer (TD).
3) Resolved dependencies.
4) Build image to a separate partition.
5) Create a sdi image of 90MB, around 13 MB more than needed - but less than
the total of 256MB available on the T5700. I used the SDI Loader to create
the file.
6) In DiskManager I set the disk file "online". I created a partition,
formatted it as NTFS and set the partition Active.
7) Then I used explorer to copy all files from my image-partition to the
sdi-file.
8) In the SDI Loader I removed the disk.
9) I then booted the T5700 using a standard windows 98 boot disk.
10) I created a partition using fdisk which spawns the entire disk. I set this
partition active. Rebooted the T5700 and formatted the newly created C:
disk.
11) Then I ran bootprep /dC to enable to boot of windows XP from NTFS
partitions.
12) I used sdi2hd d:\t5700img.sdi to transfer the sdi image - it completes
without errors.
13) A reboot gives: "A disk read error occurred".
So - 13 steps ... that ofcourse, will make things go wrong ;-) What am I
doing wrong?
From the docs I get that step 10+11 is not necessary - the sdi image contains
whatever is needed to load the operating system ... So I've tried to omit
step 10+11 - but that still doesn't work.
Any help is welcome!
Kind regards,
Brian