Troubles Installing XP on Netbook

[Bonesinger]

So as the title says I've been having troubles installing Windows XP SP 1 onto my Asus Eee PC Netbook. Since the netbook lacks a disc drive I followed This tutorial on using a flash drive as a bootable disk. I've been successful up until the second part of formatting the partition. It can't install any of the files starting with bootvid.dll and if I skip through all the files or abort the install, windows won't boot up saying it can't find the necessary files in the kernel or that it's missing hal.dll.

I've searched around the internet and comments section of that tutorial and haven't been able to find anything that helps. Just checking if anyone here has some insight to the problem or if I just need to bite the bullet and shell out some DOSH to buy a external disc drive.

[Didzo]

Buy an external disk drive. You'll use it again, I promise.

[HeK]

Buy an external disk drive. You'll use it again, I promise.

Plus they are really affordable.

Also, SP1? The hell? Go with current updates. Or just get Jolicloud and run an OS designed for a tiny laptop.

[Kirby]

[quote author=Didzo link=topic=5309.msg190941#msg190941 date=1294225708]
Buy an external disk drive. You'll use it again, I promise.

Plus they are really affordable.

Also, SP1? The hell? Go with current updates. Or just get Jolicloud and run an OS designed for a tiny laptop.
[/quote]


Probably just the install CD is one of the includes SP 1 CD's, a lot older. I have my old SP1 XP CD I got from CyberPower with my really old PC.