Hello, Since I didn't like the pre-installed

[rstegers]

Hello,

Since I didn't like the pre-installed version of XP Tablet, I decided to try and build an XP Tablet installation CD.

It turns out to be very easy. What you need is a XP Pro Installation CD, the i386 directory from your M200 and the components directory from the M200.

- Create a temp directory
- Copy all directories (except the i386 dir) from the XP Pro cd to this temp directory
- Copy the I386 dir from the M200 to the temp directory
- Copy the CMPNENTS directory to the temp directory (in the root-dir will suffice)
- Extract the boot image of the cd (for a how-to, check out tutorials on slip streaming XP with SP1)
- Burn the entire image to a CD (also here, for the settings to make it bootable, refer to a tutorial on slip streaming)

The installation will startout as a normal XP Pro installation. In the graphical part, at one point, the system will ask for
the location of a file (not sure what the name is). Browse in the CMPNENTS dir until you find the TABLETPC.CAB and select it. Now the tablet pc stuff will be copied (and the startup logo is replaced!)

(Note: The serial is on the back of the M200.)

I made a copy of the files to a new partition to reinstall without a bootable CD drive. (...) Works great! It is usefull to have partition magic or something similar at your disposal to be able to change the partitions.

The drivers can be found on the Toshiba site. I also found a document describing the standard installation order of drivers there (in the list of driver downloads, AL OS's)

I hope this will be usefull for someone!

Regards,

Ruud

[roccor]

Thanks for sharing. I have been thinking of creating a custom DVD with a few of my more critical apps' CDs on it and this will really help with the OS part:-)

[jsco]

WinXP SP2 is just around the corner. I plan to make one of these installation disks when it is released.

[standoff]

I didn't see the document that describes the standard installation of the drivers?

"The drivers can be found on the Toshiba site. I also found a document describing the standard installation order of drivers there (in the list of driver downloads, AL OS's)"

Can you send a link or provide more details as to how to find it.
thanks

[Wcrocker]

I just took a look on the Toshiba website and had no luck finding the drive list install order either. I've been known to miss things, so I'd appreciate the link or document ID order also.

Thanks in advance.

[rstegers]

I found it on the European site (for English, http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com). I assumed the content would be the same as for the US.

The date is 11th dec. 2003 and the title is 'Installation instructions'

(http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/...-tbe-na-en.zip)

[Wcrocker]

quote:Originally posted by rstegers

I found it on the European site (for English, http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com). I assumed the content would be the same as for the US.

The date is 11th dec. 2003 and the title is 'Installation instructions'

(http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/...-tbe-na-en.zip)

Thanks for the links.

[thadk]

Hmm, I figured out those instructions for myself from other tablets a while ago and made a CD...I've recently installed XP with them and now my on screen keyboard doesn't show. I installed SP2 and it showed for a bit, but at some point went back to the way it was originally.

[thadk]

Where did you get the CMPNENTS directory in these instructions? I didn't see them when I made my CD and had to compile it myself.

I also have issues with several items using .NET (TIP keyboard disappears in SP1 and SP2 after installing .NET 1.1, MSN messanger broken) so the scripts I found (from tc-one-thousand.com) to do this might have been wrong for the M200.

[ShadowVlican]

couple questions:
1) will this work for a 3500?
2) how big is your I386 directory? (mine is 178MB (186,754,712 bytes)
3) my 3500 doesn't have a CMPNENTS.. where is it?
4) my TABLETPC.CAB is in the I386 directory.. is that right?
5) after i make this cd, is it bootable using any usb-cd drive? or does it still have the limitations of toshiba drives or some special sony ones that work..?
6) how did you do it without a cd, can u elaborate on the partitioning process and setup?

thanks SO MUCH.... i have the original Windows XP tablet edition cd, but i have no external cd drive.. so i'm lost right now... partitioning and installing from hdd might work... but i dunno how to do that...