XPe boot and capabilities

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Hello,

I have some general questions about XPe. I have read the docs in MSDN but I don't find the answer to my questions.
I explain my architecture: I have an old Pentium II and I want do make it a Internet gateway (with a USB modem), a firewall, a Web server supporting ASP.NET and a FTP server. Of course, I will use IIS for Web and FTP servers. Is that possible?

How to make my hard disk on my target PC bootable? Because it is with a blank partition...
Is it possible to import the USB modem driver into XPe?
Do you have any recommendations ?
 
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Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)

Stefan said:
Hello,

I have some general questions about XPe. I have read the docs in MSDN
but I don't find the answer to my questions.
I explain my architecture: I have an old Pentium II and I want do
make it a Internet gateway (with a USB modem), a firewall, a Web
server supporting ASP.NET and a FTP server. Of course, I will use IIS
for Web and FTP servers. Is that possible?

How to make my hard disk on my target PC bootable? Because it is with
a blank partition...
Is it possible to import the USB modem driver into XPe?
Do you have any recommendations ?

XP embedded, by contractural restrictions in the ALP (additional licensing
provisions document), only allows 10 concurrent connections. If that
doesn't negate your device design, then yes - you can use technologies which
are normally part of XP Professional.

You make your PC bootable for XPE the same way you would for XP Pro.
Namely - either format your drive with NTFS or FAT. Depending on which OS
you used to format your drive FAT, you may need to use BOOTPREP.EXE.

USB Modem drivers: If it works on XP Pro, you can make it work on XP
Embedded. You have a few approaches: 1) build the windows installer
service into your image + appropriate dependancies then install the driver
after the fact, 2) build a customer component for the driver and include it
using Target design, 3) manually copy the driver's files to the appropriate
directly and let Plug and Play help you out.

Your description sounds as though this is for a single machine. If you
don't already own the toolkit ($995), using XPE for a single machine image
isn't going to be cost effective (you'd pay the toolkit + single license).
The eval toolkit only creates images that expire.
 

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