Asus Eee: Booting Windows XP Home
The default Xandros installation was too confining for me. I wasn't able to install any programs for my work in GIS and GPS, or for my geocaching hobby. So I picked up a copy of XP Home SP1 on eBay for cheap. First step was slipstreaming SP2 into the installation. I burned that image onto a CD. I also wanted to try running nLite on the installation to shrink it down. I was fairly conservative about the components I removed and went from 571MB to 310MB. To my surprise, my nLited install went smoothly. I installed the Eee-specific device drivers and everything was up and running. I'm probably going to add a gig of RAM (found a sale for $15) and get an 8GB SDHC card for additional storage and programs.
Asus Eee: Booting Windows XP Home
The default Xandros installation was too confining for me. I wasn't able to install any programs for my work in GIS and GPS, or for my geocaching hobby. So I picked up a copy of XP Home SP1 on eBay for cheap. First step was slipstreaming SP2 into the installation. I burned that image onto a CD. I also wanted to try running nLite on the installation to shrink it down. I was fairly conservative about the components I removed and went from 571MB to 310MB. To my surprise, my nLited install went smoothly. I installed the Eee-specific device drivers and everything was up and running. I'm probably going to add a gig of RAM (found a sale for $15) and get an 8GB SDHC card for additional storage and programs.