Target Designer Question

[Santiago Allen]

Hi All,

First of all, I would like to introduce myself, my name is Santiago
Allen and im a NEWB when it comes to XP embedded tools.

Now, onto my question.

I am using XPE SP2...

Im am trying to design an XP image for a target that will have no hard
drive and will boot directly from CD. I used disk 1 to create the
hardware profile for the target and had it saved on the development
station. I then imported this into the Target Designer, and added the
EL Torito CD Support Macro. I have managed to eliminate all
dependencies except one: "System Components Require at least one
additional enabled component not in the configuration" and the window
lists hard-drives and other persistent media to use. Why do I need a
hard-drive and how do I fix this dependency without adding a
hard-drive?

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Welcome Santiago,

Save this link since it is usefull for searching this NG old topics on
almost all beggining and advacned topics.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded

Please read product documentation regarding El-torito image creation. You
will see that you must pass FBA on HDD before you make bootable CD.

This might be interesting to you later on:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...e9cd63d679b/ecf314b10071f33f#ecf314b10071f33f

First you will have to make one image that can boot from HDD for test then
you will be ready to play with El-torito.

Regarding you harddrive question.
El-torito driver emulates HDD from CD so disk.sys driver is required for
this emulation to have any purpose.

If you are aiming to create small image then alternative for you is RAM boot
from CD or any other medium for that matter here you won't need disk driver
or many other drivers. After FBA you can just manualy remove them from
registry and hdd.

Regards,
Slobodan

 

[Santiago Allen]

Thanks Slobodan,

So I take it, that the HD component always needs to be there. I am
hoping to minimize memory usaged because I know that the application to
be run on the embedded target will use up around 30-60 megs itself.
And we are hoping to be able to use a single 256 Mbyte ram chip. Are
there any other good links to topics on optimizing results?

 

[KM]

Santiago,

So I take it, that the HD component always needs to be there. I am
hoping to minimize memory usaged because I know that the application to
be run on the embedded target will use up around 30-60 megs itself.
And we are hoping to be able to use a single 256 Mbyte ram chip. Are
there any other good links to topics on optimizing results?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821235
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=...cedesks/webcasts/en/transcripts/wct061203.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/reducing/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/community/tips/xp/tap/default.aspx

Also look into SP2 documentation for minimizing footprint topic.