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Carl Anuszczyk
Hi,
We're trying to create a bootable cd and not having much luck. We've
followed the steps and are a little confused as to how to interpret the
initial target system design requirements.
For our target system we would like one of the following setups:
1) OS boots from a CD
2) OS boots from a CF
With both of these systems we do not want a hard drive in the system at all.
That doesn't seem too unreasonable given what XP embedded is suppose to be
for.
However, according to the instructions (as we understand it) for creating an
El Torito CD, a partition on the target machine is created with an image of
the pre-fab OS on it. A second copy of the image is also placed on a
pre-fab CD. You then boot from the CD and allow the FBA to boot and run
it's course. You then must create a second bootable disk from the post-fba
image on the hard disk and then use this for cloning (after a few more
steps). My problem is understanding how the final target system is not
going to have the hard drive yet it is required to create the cd to begin
with.
I guess my question in a nut shell is what the basic steps for creating a cd
(or CF) are for a system that doesn't have a hard drive?
Frustrated to no end,
Carl Anuszczyk
We're trying to create a bootable cd and not having much luck. We've
followed the steps and are a little confused as to how to interpret the
initial target system design requirements.
For our target system we would like one of the following setups:
1) OS boots from a CD
2) OS boots from a CF
With both of these systems we do not want a hard drive in the system at all.
That doesn't seem too unreasonable given what XP embedded is suppose to be
for.
However, according to the instructions (as we understand it) for creating an
El Torito CD, a partition on the target machine is created with an image of
the pre-fab OS on it. A second copy of the image is also placed on a
pre-fab CD. You then boot from the CD and allow the FBA to boot and run
it's course. You then must create a second bootable disk from the post-fba
image on the hard disk and then use this for cloning (after a few more
steps). My problem is understanding how the final target system is not
going to have the hard drive yet it is required to create the cd to begin
with.
I guess my question in a nut shell is what the basic steps for creating a cd
(or CF) are for a system that doesn't have a hard drive?
Frustrated to no end,
Carl Anuszczyk