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

I’ve got a tiny netbook here and its currently got Ubuntu on it, and as much as i like the open source community and linux in general, i don’t think my family quite gets its UI. And its not the easiest thing to teach ether, so I’m wondering if anyone knows how i could install Windows XP on this via USB key. As it has no CD drive.

Any prior knowledge and experience would be better, as i’ve tried many of the things google suggests, so someone simply copy and pasting stuff from google wouldn’t necessarily help.

I’m wondering about netbooting too, however i have no idea how to set up a “server” or “host” machine to do this.

Thanks in advance.