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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Flashing BIOS with Windows utility
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
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>> XP on a USB stick.... =A0It sounds like a Windows machine is necessary
>> to build it, but once it's built it would be really handy.
>
> I have found my attempts at building this or a CD-based PE very frustrati=
ng
> indeed. It seems like an awful lot of aggro when you could just download
> exactly the same thing that someone else has already built, if only the
> license permitted it.
>
> Perhaps it's just seemed like a lot of work because it's never been a goa=
l
> of mine to make a bootable Windows CD or USB stick - I've always been try=
ing
> to build them in order to help me achieve some other goal, and it's been =
far
> more faffing about that I've been prepared to tolerate.
>
> There used =A0to be plenty of PE builds available by the usual pirate sit=
es,
> but I have no idea whether that's still the case. I seem to be getting mo=
re
> efficient at not needing them.
>
> Stroller.
Has anyone tried winbuilder:
http://winbuilder.net/
It's supposed to be great.
- Grant