XP Embedded Images

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Ben

I'm kinda new to this but I saw that with windows CE you
can have an entire image in basically 1 file (.nb0). Can
this same thing be done with XP embedded or do the windows
directory etc.. have to be in the root of the drive that's
booting the device?
 
You can put whole XPe partition in one SDI file and do RAM boot. If this is
what you want.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
Ok, this is for deploying the OS to the target device,
right? What I was referring to is using windows CE you
can make a single file on the target device that holds all
the system files in it and somehow a bootloader is made to
kick start the initialization of the devices os (in this
case windows CE). I didn't know if the same thing could be
done with XP embedded. Instead of having the OS files on
the root of the hard drive (i.e. Windows, Program Files,
Documents and Settings Folders, and the ntldr file) I
would like to be able to put all that into a single file
that could be booted from the target devices hard drive.

Is this not possible with XP embedded?

Thanks
 
Ok, this is for deploying the OS to the target device, right?
It can be used for deploying the OS to the target device.

But links I have provided you with, describe how to boot directly from SDI
file (no need to extract it).
Or even better you can load SDI file data by yourself to memory and start
ram boot.

BTW:
Why is it so important to you that you have whole OS in one file?
Depending on your usage you might not need to do it at all.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
I guess I don't really need to have it one file I was just
thinking it would be cleaner. As far as booting the image
from a server, it recommends that you have double the
memory of your image. My image is about 336mb so far and
I'm only working with a device that has 64mb of ram. So
that's a no go for me.

On another note can this work on a FAT file system or must
it be NTFS.

Also how would I go about making a boot loader if it's not
on a standard PC?

thanks alot your help :)
 
I bet you've already answered my questions with your
previous post. Let me go back and read again.

thanks
 
You must use FAT is this scenario.

But 64MB is just not enough memory for RAM boot.

If you make your image less than 30 MB then it could be remotely possible.

You don't need double memory size. But you need enough extra memory to cover
your image size.

Regards,
Slobodan
 
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