The following was done on a machine running CentOS 5.4 and Vmware Workstation 7. I used a Kingwin PATA USB enclosure for a 20GB 2.5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hard drive that came out of a Dell Insprion 4100 laptop.<\/p>\n
Download 59874-dos71cd-26343.zip from http:\/\/www.syschat.com\/download60.html&act=down.<\/p>\n
Unzip the file, and burn the DOS71CD.ISO image to a CD. I used K3b on my CentOS 5.4 host.<\/p>\n
Remove the laptop hard drive and put it in a USB drive enclosure.<\/p>\n
Connect laptop hardrive in USB enclosure.<\/p>\n
The drive should have all partitions removed, so the DOS installation can create a partition during install.<\/p>\n
Create MS-DOS Vmware instance with the USB drive accessed via a physical drive (The only hard drive for this instance.), and the DOS71CD.ISO image file as the CD device. <\/p>\n
Make sure that both have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Connect at power on\u00e2\u20ac\u009d checked.<\/p>\n
Boot the CD\/ISO by powering on the newly created Vmware instance.<\/p>\n
Go through the installation process and allow the installation to create the boot partition and install the MBR and install Smartdrv.<\/p>\n
Once the installation is completed, verify that the USB drive boots by unchecking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Connect at power on\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the CD.<\/p>\n
Boot the drive up to verify is boots DOS.<\/p>\n
Power down the Vmware instance.<\/p>\n
Then, copy the I386 directory from the Windows XP CD to the USB drive. I did this from my CentOS 5.4 Vmware host.<\/p>\n
Remove the hard drive the enclosure, and put it back in the laptop.<\/p>\n
Boot the laptop into DOS. Note: This did not work for me. I had to boot off a floppy and use “fdisk \/mbr” to fix the Master Boot Record. Once, I did this things went pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
Run smartdrv. Note: This made a huge difference.<\/p>\n
Cd i386.<\/p>\n
Run winnt.exe.<\/p>\n
This will take quite a while (hours even, although not so in my case). It will even appear stuck on the copying files screen, but it will still be working.<\/p>\n
I had to boot a few times during the XP install during the copying files stage. It looks like the install also repaired the boot loader. Nonetheless, in the end it is working fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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