Re: create a boot cd for installing XP

From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/23/05


Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:28:19 +1100

The mini booter asks Pro or Home and then it's identical to retail from that point.

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"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in message news:vgv6v052kjcsqgem5mqceios9g8c96nnb2@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:52:46 +1100, "David Candy" <.> wrote:
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>>My MSDN one is bootable. Plus it's enhanced over standard retail 
>>as it loads a mini booter to choose to boot home or pro.
> 
> Issit?  I must try that... does it do RC and Repair options too?
> 
> Normally I prefer to diskette boot with CD support and run Setup
> explicitly from there, so I can pass a response file as a parameter.
> I don't remember the CD working when I tried to boot it to access RC
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