Inquiry:How to install Windows XP on an Linux server
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Inquiry:How to install Windows XP on an Linux server
Dear All
Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I install Windows XP on an Linux server ? Please be informed that I have installed CentOS 5 on my Intel Celeron laptop but I wrongly chose "Remove existing directories" when installing the Linux . At now I have the CentOS 5 completely installed but I cannot install the Windows XP again . Can you please let me know how to rescue ?
Thank you in advance
Regards
H.Motamedi
Why can't you install XP? Did you try booting with XP cd inserted?
Thank you for your reply . I tried to boot from Windows XP CD but the system just goes to booting the CentOS 5 kernel after restart . Can you please let me know how can I boot from Windows XP CD ?
Regards
H.Motamedi
Seems to me there is a problem with the windows CD
Sorry . Please be informed that it can be upgraded to RedHat 9 if I place its installation CD into CDROM drive . Can you please let me know if it does not come from that "Removing all partitions on this machine" and if so how can I rescue ?
Regards
H.Motamedi
No, since you can boot other cd's.
The CD is broken or corrupt.
Try to use it on another computer.
Sorry . I found the problem . It comes from the fact that my internal CDROM has not being mounted and so it is not as an active device under BIOS settings . Can you please let me know how can I mount it ?
Regards
H.Motamedi
Sorry . I found the problem . It comes from the fact that my internal CDROM has not being mounted and so it is not as an active device under BIOS settings . Can you please let me know how can I mount it ?
But you can
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Please be informed that it can be upgraded to RedHat 9 if I place its installation CD into CDROM drive
Yes , you are right . When I put RedHat 9 installation CD it can be booted to install the RedHat 9 without any difficulty . But when I put Windows XP installation CD , it does not read the CD and just boots from its CentOS 5 kernel .
Yes , you are right . When I put RedHat 9 installation CD it can be booted to install the RedHat 9 without any difficulty . But when I put Windows XP installation CD , it does not read the CD and just boots from its CentOS 5 kernel .
Then the CD is corrupt or broken.
Did you try to boot the CD on another computer, or use another CD?
Yes , you are right . When I put RedHat 9 installation CD it can be booted to install the RedHat 9 without any difficulty . But when I put Windows XP installation CD , it does not read the CD and just boots from its CentOS 5 kernel .
The cd is corrupted or it may have some problem with your drive. Get another disc
Who will tell. On my previous computer, installing XP was impossible without first wiping any trace of any other operating system off ALL my hard drives*! The fact that it installed just fine after that would indicate that neither the install cd nor the optical drive were bad. More like an additional feature you get for free on top of what you pay for...
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*I did not really wipe those drives, of course - I just unplugged them except the one that I needed to install XP on. Since it was an empty drive, the install cd did not detect any "malicious" OS and it installed "without a hitch".
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