XP and NT in general were built quite modularly. This is why there was/is
NT4/Win2k/XP embedded. It is plain you understand neither of these products, so
I invite you to spend five minutes to familiarize yourself with them...
especially BartPE, as it costs NOTHING.

I offered you a solution you insisted didn't exist. You are welcome to take it.
You are welcome not to. But you would be ignoring the fact it is EXACTALLY what
you wished for.

Jason

Lester Caine wrote:

> Jason Dodson wrote:
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>>Sure there is. Its called Windows PE:
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/programs/sa/benefits/winpe.mspx
>>
>>Moving from that, you can build your own with BartPE:
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>>http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
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> But why should I have to spend time ( and money ) on that - even if
> Microsoft would supply a small user like me. W98SE works fine once you
> install it with the relevent updates and applications. And installation
> via a ghost is easy even with differing hardware. Neither of the quoted
> links provide a version of windows that will work on VIA ITX cards or
> fanless processor systems they are just knobbled XP with all the
> infrastructure that is simply not needed. The comment was "Why would you
> use buggy software as a server" - I am simply saying that W98SE *IS*
> running 24/7 for me and not giving me any cause to spend time and money
> replacing it. I have to buy XP licences at twice the cost of 98 but I
> install 98 and two fingers to Microsoft ;)
>
>
>>>I have no intention of switching the slave servers to anything else -
>>>unless it's Linux ;)
>>>There *IS* a need for a simple cut down windows based OS that does not
>>>have all the *DROS* of XP/2003 just for simple server applications. The
>>>fact that there is not is what is driving me to get the Linux version
>>>working :)
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