Has anyone ever had any luck installing Windows XP via USB key?

I have a first gen EeePC and have installed many Linux distros from usb, but have never successfully installed XP via usb. My solution was to buy a $20 usb cd drive from amazon. Not sure if this was the information you found googling around but here is the wiki page from eeeuser forums, that is where I would start.

thanks, i have tried alot of things, but i havent looked into the whole eeepc wiki thing, i’ll take a quick look.

Is dual-booting not an option? Ubuntu’s boot manager can handle throwing XP at startup instead of Ubuntu…

EDIT: Try these out.

http://hezardastan.org/breezy_xp_dualboot/en/
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/05/08/dual-boot-laptop.html

@Lovelocke, there’d be no point in dual booting, i know how to do it, but it would be pointless on the tiny 40GB hdd when i would no longer use it, making Ubuntu a waste of space that i could USB boot when ever i liked.

But i was more interested in actually how to get XP onto the computer without the use of a CD/DVD drive, over USB or netboot.

The reason I bring up dual booting, is because of the file system differences. Some “across the board” files won’t be affected, but as far as using XP and running applications, you’ll have a pretty strong want for the NTFS file system. This, of course, is just my opinion… it does depend greatly on how much of a system w/ XP your folks are going to use. If it’s just the GUI they like… well…

http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
http://www.winusb.de/tutorial_en.html

Two tutorials but two weeks late.

much better late than never, this seems to be perfect. thank you.