I've just changed things around on my system, so that I'm now running Linux on my main hard drives (2xSATA in RAID 0). It works great, but I figure that since I've still got a licence for Windows XP it may come in handy to have it on a spare hard drive.
I've got two 20GB drives attached to a PATA controller. I want to make one an NTFS Windows XP installation, and format the other one as FAT32 to use as a transfer space between Linux and Windows (FAT32/VFAT is the only filesystem both will write to reliably).
None of this is especially difficult, but what I was thinking was that instead of installing Windows from the CD, I could copy the files onto the FAT32 drive and install from there. I did this with the Linux installation and it worked very well, and sped things up no end (in fact, all I had to do was copy the .iso files I downloaded, without even unpacking them -- but then that's why Linux is great
).
Is this possible? Presumably I'd still have to boot from an XP CD, but after doing that, how do I tell it that I want to install from D:?
Cheers,
Tristan