[Paintblock]

The College I'm at offers all of it's students a copy of Microsoft Windows XP. The problem is it's on the website and is an executable.

I have absolutely no idea how to install SP because the simple step-by-step instructions in bootcamp tell me to insert a disk. Can someone help me out?

[Drizzt]

Paintblock, on August 29th 2008, 10:51 PM, said:

The College I'm at offers all of it's students a copy of Microsoft Windows XP. The problem is it's on the website and is an executable.

I have absolutely no idea how to install SP because the simple step-by-step instructions in bootcamp tell me to insert a disk. Can someone help me out?

How big is the .exe file? Is the entire install of XP or just a stub downloader file? Either way, I'd suggest you see if a fellow Windows using roommate or classmate might be able to help you out in burning a bootable disc.

[Paintblock]

It's around 540 MB.

[Drizzt]

That will fit onto one CD then. Have you looked into having it burned for you somehow?

[bobbob]

It might be an exe, but it's probably just an archive containing an ISO. Extract and burn the ISO to disc (note, do not just copy the file).

[Dark_Archon]

Is it through MSDNAA? The .exe file is probably the downloader... unless you already downloaded the .exe and it itself is 540MB, then it is a self extracting archive. For this kind of thing, I've had no problem with Darwine. The Microsoft windows downloader app runs fine in it.