[OpenAFS] XP embedded

[Rodney M Dyer]

At 03:48 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>Christian Ospelkaus wrote:
> > can anybody on this list comment on whether or not the current windows 
> client
> > will run on XP embedded (R&S FSP spectrum analyzer) ? Best regards,
>
>XP Embedded is a component based operating system.  Assuming you have all 
>of the necessary components installed, then I would expect it to run.  I 
>do not know what all of the necessary components would be.  I have never 
>used XP Embedded.

We have converted and use Microsoft Windows PE, instead of DOS to build our 
Windows XP workstations.  I have been interested in trying to install the 
OpenAFS Windows client into PE.  However there are a few difficulties that 
are immediately apparent.  First, there appears to be no SYSTEM registry, 
so you can't install your own services.  This makes sense because Microsoft 
doesn't want PE to "get out" and become a small operating system of its 
own.  The second problem is installing OpenAFS.  You can't use any 
installer under Windows PE, everything would need to be hand 
installed.  And finally, there can be no "live" caches under PE, so the 
AFSCache file is out.  I haven't had time to look any further, but it 
really would be cool to mount AFS under PE for network builds.

Rodney