howto Install windows xp sp1 to the new notebook

my bro can't do this because of lack of drivers at the disk.

this is my plan:

1. install it to the VirtualBox

2. install additional drivers to the system

3. install acronis or another disk cloning software to the virtual machine.

4. use some utilities to reset all drivers

5. create a disk image and copy it to the shared folder, or directly to a flash drive

6. boot a live version of the cloning software and copy a disk image to the hard drive

second variant: clonezilla+VmWare

oops.. I've found a brillant HOWTO

notes

1. the source of "error 911" @gamess-us was incorrect amount of SysV system memory.
For fixing, I've added this two lines to the /etc/sysct.conf
#add sysV shared memory
kernel.shmmax = 402653184

2. Calling with skype from command line
2.1. install Skype4Py: easy_install Skype4Py
2.2. patch it:

--- posix_dbus.py (revision 284)
+++ posix_dbus.py (working copy)
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
else:
import dbus
import dbus.service
- from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
+ from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop, threads_init
import gobject


@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@

# initialize glib multithreading support
gobject.threads_init()
+ # Initialize threads in dbus-glib, if this has not already been done.
+ # This must be called before creating a second thread in a program
+ # that uses this module.
+ threads_init()

# dbus-python calls object.__init__() with arguments passed to SessionBus(),
# this throws a warning on newer Python versions; here we suppress it
2.3. Use script from ubuntu site.

Disk failure

After power outage I couldn't log into my second node. Also, I coulnd't reboot it. So, I've booted Fedora liveusb, and tried to find disks with "fdisk -l". It didn't work.
su - and I didn't have to input any pass at all. Wow, I'm root now ^_^
#fdisk -l gave me info that I had /dev/sda1 there as a primary disk. I've checked it with
#fsck -cc
Then I leaved my workplace to digest some food. It took me about hour.
Unfotunately, I didn't choose "yes for all questions" option, so I had to reply "yes, I do want to force rewriting this block" It took another 20 minutes and was really boring.
As a result, I've got a working disk at the moment.