Installing XP from a USB drive guide
Want XP on your Mini-Note, but don’t have an external CD drive? Brad over at liliputing.com has a nice guide for getting XP installed on your Mini-Note via a USB stick. He walks you through getting your flash drive setup and the pitfalls you might run into while setting up XP.
Since you’ll want a real CD drive sooner or later you could reuse an old drive with an IDE to USB adapter for less than $25 at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812156101. While not as pretty or easy to carry around as a true portable disc drive, it’s better than nothing and it’s cheaper.
