Today we continued our work on the bootable images of discs run off of USB. We (I sorta knew part of it, but didn't think it through fully) found out that some USB drives do not work for booting from on older machines, I ended up having to use the 4GB card one that I keep in my wallet and that worked.
Windows XP we ended up using WinSetupFromUSB.exe to run the installer off of USB. It worked fine for me. For Ultimate Boot CD I ended up just using the ISO that the teacher gave us and ran that through LiLi (Linux Live USB Creator) and it worked fine off of my card drive, but not my Red Kingston (which I usually use for booting from on other computers).
Tomorrow we are actually installing the operating systems. I am going to be installing Windows XP and Ubuntu (because he put up on the board about a UNIX based OS, and I personally prefer Ubuntu :p
Gparted we also found out had a limit of how much RAM it could utilize, so you technically can't make over 16 partitions without it failing and saying that it is corrupt, after using just about every partitioning utility on the UBCD drive I made and finding out that only one of them actually works to make more. The task we were given to find out about this was trying to get a small partition onto every letter of the alphabet to work within Windows for if we reinstalled it.
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