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how would i go about installing windows XP sp3 from CD to a 4gb usb stick
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you cant install XP onto a USB stick, you can put the install disk onto a USB stick though.
Or, you could always plug it in and select it as the drive for installation, and hope that XP installs.
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You can't.
It won't even let you try install.
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You can install from a USB stick, but you can't install to one.
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it let me install but it said something when booting like disk error
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yeh, as i said, it wont work.
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hmm i found some stuff on it its a bit complicated though http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176
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Linux can
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Windows cannot
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Linux is gay *starts war*
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Linux is running 66% of your digital world, so either act like a dumbass or shut the hell up
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Linux is great when you know how to use it
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I doubt 66%
Most businesses use windows, as well as the rest.
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I think he's probably talking about servers
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Most Servers use Linux, boy.
Get your statstics right
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Of course they're are things like domain controllers which generally is best suited for Windows Server
But for things like google or facepunch or even youtube, it's all Linux
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Yes I know most servers use linux because linux is awesome for that, but you said 66% of the digital world which cannot be right at all.
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I'm talking websites, databases, proxies, etc, not Buisness level apparatus
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Ok so businesses aren't part of the digital world -.-
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I've seen a version of XP that runs from a flash drive on the FP Wuala group, so it is clearly possible.
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That's really a moot point, because Linux tends to be used in places where you don't care what it is running. Linux has it's uses, but it's mainly in places where you don't want to hear about it.
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Yeah.
There is a way of doing it but it's really just pointless
You're better off installing on an external HDD
And linux.
It has it's uses, mainly dodging the high costs involved in licensing a Windows Server box
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Facepunch is actually Windows since Garry has some sort of stubborn hate for Linux.
A better way of phrasing it would be that Linux runs the things you care about (Web servers, DHCPs, proxies, FTPs, clusters, ...) while Windows runs the things that don't require stability (end user machines).
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Linux is starting to appear in things such as routers:
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduc...odid=NW-112-LS
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I was meaning more like for servers you care about uptime and stability, and Linux provides that best and that's why it is used. Not because it is Linux. Also in wee things like routers and fridges and phones and crap. You don't care what it runs, as long as it continues to do so with no fuss, and no intervention on your part.
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"starting"? A load of networking equipment runs on linux
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Which explains why Facepunch has tons of downtime.
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Tons of embedded devices run Linux, like Tivos.
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That's irrelevant. Of course you don't use Linux because of the name, you use it because it does certain things best.
But that doesn't change the fact that a dumb terminal is still a dumb terminal, even if you have 60,000,000 of them. They don't run anything even if they're a massive part of the 'digital world'.
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Again, that' not really what I mean, but I'm finding it hard to explain. The best I can think to come up with is you don't want to hear about the server, on the basis it should be running fine. Or something. It's in my head but I can't say it.
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You love to troll don't you?
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This is the Windows section.
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did this man just succeed in starting a war?
Anyway, attempting to re-rail the subject...
I was looking into something similar earlier today. I ended up not doing it because flash drives send data in bursts (or was it just the USB interface...), and in the time that it isn't sending data, it can't read or write from or to the swap file, causing windows to hang and crash, a hard reset required. You might be able to work it on an external hard drive via firewire or eSATA
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Yes... It happened a bit like this:
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I think we're agreeing without knowing. Either way, it doesn't matter :P
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This is semi-possible, actually. I agree: it's easier with Linux (a lót easier). But it's possible with Windows as well. For this, we'd be using Bart's Preinstalled Environment.
Information about installing BartPE to a USB-Stick can be found here:
http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10806
Now, then. Please ready your catapults and other combat-contraptions and return to the battle at hand!
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Makes sense
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So BartPE basically tricks Windows into waiting for the swap file to be available? or does it "emulate," for lack of a better term, a windows environment in order to successfully run windows?
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oh never mind, a little bit of reading and it basically disables the flash drive from resetting or something like that.
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BartPE creates a bootable slimmed down windows installation. Its akin to WinPE (Check the wikipedia page).
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Thanks, it makes a lot more sense now.
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Yeah probably
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USB sticks don't have a whole lot of write cycles. Installing and running windows would eventually cause the silicon cells to collapse and not be able to hold data from having experienced too many write cycles.
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Ok, so what about solid state HDDs, they should use the same memory ICs that a USB drive uses right? Some, if not a lot of mp3 players use the same chip. So why would the silicon break down due to X-number of write cycles?
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It's a well known problem with flash memory. Even the Intel X-25 SSD's have issues with it. Wear leveling helps.
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This is madness THIS IS SPARTA!!!!
so it is possible to install windows to a usb drive
