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RE: [Xen-users] Has anyone installed from an XP Pro "upgrade" disk

To: "Jim Lynch" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Has anyone installed from an XP Pro "upgrade" disk
From: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:46:56 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
> Sent: 17 January 2007 11:34
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> Subject: [Xen-users] Has anyone installed from an XP Pro 
> "upgrade" disk
> 
> I don't have a full install, just the upgrade.  I tried to insert the
> windows 98 disk but it didn't find that, I tried to dd a working win98
> partition to an image and use it as the image file, thinking XP might
> read that file, but that didn't work. I also tried to install 
> Win98 but
> it failed because it tried to load a driver to read the cdrom and
> couldn't. 

I definitely haven't tried this, but I don't see why it shouldn't work
(except perhaps Win98 is too similar to Win 3.1 and uses based segments
rather more than WinXP/NT type OS's).

A driver to read the CDROM should work just fine. 

--
Mats
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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