Boot XPe question from beginner

[daicamad]

Ok, after spending almost a week browsing thru MS website and
newsgroups, I have to ask questions here:

I have a PC104 with Video Capture board with me. (an external CD USB
drive is attaching to the board too)

According to my research, I need to run the TAP tool on my PC104 to
detect all components and then build a target image from the pmq file.

Issues:

I need to boot that PC104 first. There are something called XP
preinstall evironment thingie...included in Disk1. Unfortunately, I
don't have the CD. I download the kits from MS websites. It has
directory disk 1, but building a bootable CD from that does not boot
anything!!

I can run the TAP on my development PC (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ms940798.aspx) but then it detect components on my
"development" PC, not the target PC104.

So the question is:
1) How do I boot and run the TAP tool on the target PC104 so it can
create the pmq file to save on a USB thumb drive? (It got no hard
drive, but an SD drive)

2) After I can build the appropriate image, how do I "flash" it on an
SD drive intead of build a CD?


Thanks,

 

[KM]

You indeed need to order XPe Toolkit CDs by mail from Microsoft to get proper Disk1 with WinPE included. Here you can order eval CDs
free: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/eval/trial.mspx.

You can also order WinPE separately. Find more info here: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/sa/benefits/winpe.mspx
Or you can get customizable WinPE pack (OPK) from your XPe distributor.

If you happened to have XP Pro installation CD, it is also based (the installer itself) on WinPE (1.0). You can always either
install full XP Pro on your target device and run TAP there, or just interrupt the installation early at beginning (Shift+F10 key
combination) and you will be brought to WinPE environment (CMD window) where you can perform whatever you need to including TAP run.
In WinPE you can connect USB Mass storage devices (e.g., USB flash drive) and run TAP from it. You can also use it to copy files to
and from.