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Windows 7 usb install guide

Cas — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:47:04 +0000

I don’t have much to write for this one, Last year I threw up some info on installing Windows Vista from a USB drive and this time around I’ve sadly got the exact same guide for you.

Windows Vista USB install guide

When you see the word Vista, think 7.

Follow the steps and it couldn’t be easier.

MSI Wind OSX Leopard install guide

Cas — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:27:32 +0000

Installing OSX on non apple branded hardware has always been a interest of mine.

By working with the community at MSIWind.net we have been able to bring you a clean and easy solution to get OSX Leopard 10.5 running on the MSI Wind from the retail version of OSX.

The guide and resources can now be located in the MSIWind.net wiki here.

If you do need further support with installing OSX onto the MSI Wind please visit the forum. Ideally at the end of it all we will get something that looks a little like this:

Ubuntu USB install guide

Cas — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:26:27 +0000

Installing Ubuntu from a single USB drive is easy. This guide details the steps to get this great OS onto your UMPC with little effort.

Requirements for guide:

Latest version of Syslinux
Ubuntu or Variant of choice
USB Flash drive/thumb stick with enough storage for files

Step 1

Formatting the USB flash drive

Select My Computer, right-click on the USB flash drive and select click Format.

Select FAT32 as the file system. Click start and wait for the format to complete.

Step 2

Making the USB flash drive bootable

Open the command prompt and change the directory to the extracted Syslinux/win32 folder.

cd Desktop/syslinux/win32

Once in the correct directory, enter the following to install the syslinux bootlader to the USB flash drive

Note: h: is the letter of your USB flash drive

syslinux -ma h:

Press enter.

Step 3

Extract the Ubuntu ISO

Right click on the ISO file and extract the files with WinRAR/7zip to the Ubuntu folder.

Step 4

Compiling the files.

The USB flash drive is now bootable, the Ubuntu files have been extracted.

Copy the files you extracted from the ubuntu-8.04 folder onto the empty USB drive.

Move the contents of the isolinux folder to the root of the drive. eg: from H:\isolinux\ into H:\

Rename isolinux.cfg file to syslinux.cfg

Finished!

Eject the USB flash drive, that’s it!

A sub 5 minute solution to a problem that causes a lot of headaches for many people when trying to install without a CD/DVD.

Windows Vista install guide

Cas — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:53:02 +0000

There are many ways to install Windows Vista on the EeePC, this solution will do it all from a single USB flash drive.

Requirements:

USB Drive flash drive
Computer running Windows XP / Windows Vista
Vlite
Windows Vista DVD

Following this guide is easy, once complete you will be able to install Windows Vista from a USB flash drive.Vlite is optional, but you will need to have sufficient HDD space for the install. Vlite is strongly recommend to create a customised installation suitable for the EeePC.

Step 1:

Make sure the USB flash drive is connected

Step 2:

Open the command prompt, Start > Run > cmd

Step 3:

Type diskpart in the cmd window, press enter. Then type:

list disk

and press enter. Confirm the disk number that your usb drive has, for this guide disk 1 is the example.

Step 4:

Now that we know our usb flash drive is disk 1 we can begin. Enter the following in the cmd window you currently have open, adjust accordingly to your configuration.

select disk 1 clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=fat32 assign exit

Step 5:

D: drive letter that contains the installation files (Windows vista dvd) and G: is the USB flash drive.

We will now copy the installation files to the flash drive, using the cmd once again enter the following command:

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f g:\

Finished!

Put the usb flash drive into your EeePC and boot from it, Finished!