Hi,

It is one of my tasks to demonstrate in a few weeks this whole windows XP
Embedded shtick. Our target system is currently running a installed copy of
XP. It seems that the powers that be (not learning about XPe, just
managing.) believe all that is necessary is to build a full, not optimized
or size limited in any way, XPe image and put it on the target system and it
should run. Perhaps. And I am not knowledgeable enough yet (having spent
only 3 days getting a handle on this XPe thing) to know if this is a
practical approach for demo purposes. Words of wisdom will be appreciated.

billa

In article <#I738KoGJHA.3460@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, bames@aob.com
says...

That should work; it's exactly what we did: start off with a full image
to verify that it was basically capable of running our apps, and then
start hacking pieces off from there until it wouldn't any more. That
cut the image size by about 2/3 from the full install (it's much quicker
to install the image now!!).

Whether this is the right approach depends on your real requirements.
As long as you have a device that has a fair amount of available
storage (e.g. gigabytes), and you have a PC like environment, this is
not a bad way to go. If on the other hand you have a headless device
with a custom keyboard and no mouse, maybe not...

Following are suggestions to get you on the road to making your first
image.

Assuming you want to try this the 1st step is to go to xpefiles.com
and download the XPPro Emulation component....
Next use the component database manager to import the .sld file

Normal sequence of bringing up a motherboard is as follows
CAPTURING A LIST OF DEVICE DRIVERS NEEDED BY YOUR SYSTEM:
1. Install XP Pro on the Target (1st partition, NTFS, etc)
2. Run TAP.exe on the target to generate a devices.pmq file (\Program
Files\Windows Embedded\Utilities\TAP.exe)

CREATING AN XP EMBEDDED BUILD:
1. Back at your development computer where you have the XPE tools
installed, ppen target designer, Select File, Import, browse to locate
the devices.pmq from the target,...