New
#1
Win7 Installation Challenge: no USB, DVD, OS. How?
I'm new to these forums, so first of all: greetings!
Now to the matter at hand.
I would like to install Win7 on an old rig of mine for the purpose of satisfying my curiosity wheather or not this new shiny OS can run descently on the following machine:
FSC Lifebook P1120
- 8.9" touchscreen (16:10)
- Transmeta Crusoe TM8500 @ 800 MHz (yeah...)
- 256 MB SDRAM (actually 240, since the proc is eating up 16 MB of RAM for it's cache)
- fast and big enough HDD
- 2 unbootable USB 1.0 ports
- ethernet, Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 BG
- no USB boot, no external drive boot are possible
If you are asking yourself at this point why somebody would actually want to do this and doesn't just simply buy a netbook, read no further.
As for the amount of RAM - I've found some workarounds which, in fact, make the installation possible (one of them being patching the wininstall.dll). So that shouldn't be an issue.
The installation process itself, however, is quite of a problem. So here we go.
The only OS I've got the P1120 running at the moment is my custom Windows XP Embedded image, which is in some ways limited in it's capabilities for the sake of usability, speed and RAM usage. So it can't load image files since I've disabled CD ROM support before applying the image.
As for now I have come so far as to decompressing the .ISO, patching the wininstall.dll with a hex editor in a way explained on the internet. Running the setup.exe brings up and empty error report, so I don't really know what to do with it. I have figured out that some people have experienced similar proplems during the install and didn't find a solution so far. I hope I'm wrong.
If this can be of any help: I have got several 2.5" HDDs around here and also a couple of other computers and external 2.5" HDD connectors. So I can basically swap them out, change partitions, copy files and so on...
So, by now, you should see the challenge. Can you help me? Are you interested?
Thank you for reading and thanks in advance for responding. Any help is apriciated!
Bye!