Now, the rage right now is small laptops or Netbooks (as they are more commonly known) for general web browsing and small document editing as they are not very powerful.
I was asked to install XP on a netbook (a very nice white shiny Aspire One with Linux Linpus Lite installed already, which isn't great). I thought, wow, this should be the same as any other install. Whack in the CD, boot it up, add service packs... oh wait. CD drive.
So i went about searching the internet for a solution. Eventually, i got a very helpful article here on installing it. Also, the disk i currently had was only SP1, so i decided to "slipstream" it with nLite, a very helpful program. My first attempt with auto key entry and automatic user making resulted in a very strange situation - my very legal, paid for, license key refused to work. And so, I used a plain SP3 install. I am currently installing it now, hopefully it should work. I read here that also using Compatibility mode on Vista would also help, and seeing as i am using Windows 7 as my primary system, it makes sense to use the compatiblity mode.
Update: I eventually managed to get it installed, but i had to use a different XP disc. I also had to restore the MBR in the recovery console using the XP install disc/usb stick.
Commands Used
Press [R] to get to Recovery Console on XP disc
fixboot C:
fixmbr
exit
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