streamlining SP into XP home

ive followed the tut @ theeldergeek.com but the files that are burned onto the CD dont fit onto a CDR and I dont have a DVD burner and im thinking that I do not need 200MBs of stuff that is on the XP CD I have

if you go here:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstream_nero_procedure.htm

and scroll down to where it says "Adding The Files To Be Copied", and take a look at the picture there, you will notice a difference between that and the attached image ... the folder called USWXP32C_ZX is 200MBs or so ... and while theeldergeeks CD comes out to be about 525 MBs mine comes out to be about 722MB ... i tried just erasing all the folders and files that were obvious but the CD crashed sometime during the first part of the install where it is loading drivers

i am 99.9999% sure that i burned it correctly

is there a way to delete that folder? or is there 30 MBs of useless stuff that I can delete safely?

 

You don't appear to have the OEM XP CD, but rather a Compaq specific version. I suspect Compaq specific drivers & software reside in the folder in question. I don't really know what to tell you about deleting anything, since what's in the folder is unknown at this point...and if you're trying to reinstall on your Compaq, I'm sure it'll want/need whatever's in there.

 

hm ... yea im thinking that compaq doesn;t expect anyone to do a reinstall that they included like these other CDs that have all this software i dont need or want and they want you to put in this other CD which restores the computer back to the original state when i bought it, but since i only want to put on the OS i have never had the need to use the other CDs and i think what's in that folder is stuff the other CDs ask for