How to install XP Home on an Acer notebook with Oracle VirtualBox

[Guest Bill-Horne]

I'm trying to install XP Home edition on my Acer 2301 XC Travelmate via Oracle VirtualBox, i.e. as a virtual machine under Linux Mint 13. My goal is to install a couple of Windows XP programs on the Acer that won't install with Linux's "Wine" emulator, e.g. Adobe Creative Suite 5.

 

However, I think that the original XP discs that came with the Acer aren't really bootable - they're more for recovery. There were two disks that came with the Acer (see photo). Is there a way to extract a bootable ISO image from disc #1? Or would I have to download a proper file?

 

 

 

Specs below:

 

 

 

System: Host: Acer Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.6.3)

Desktop: Xfce 4.8.3 (Gtk 2.24.10) Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya

Machine: System: Acer (portable) product: TravelMate 2300 version: Rev 1

Mobo: Acer model: TravelMate 2300 version: Rev 1.0 Bios: ACER version: 3A07 date: 08/03/2004

CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (sse sse2) bmips: 2597.68 clocked at 1298.840 MHz

Graphics: Card: Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device bus-ID: 00:02.0

X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.3 Mesa 8.0.4 Direct Rendering: No

Audio: Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 1c00 18c0 bus-ID: 00:1f.5

Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.24

Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401 100Base-T driver: b44 ver: 2.0 bus-ID: 02:02.0

Drives: HDD Total Size: 137.4GB (5.3% used) 1: /dev/sda SAMSUNG_HM160HC 137.4GB

Partition: ID: / size: 127G used: 6.9G (6%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 1.59GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: N/A

Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A

 

Info: Processes: 132 Uptime: 38 min Memory: 232.3/1490.7MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.6.3 Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33

 

 

 

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