I'm interested in purchasing a modern netbook - I have seen many nice-looking models under $300.

However I own the MSDN OS edition which means I have spare XP and Vista licences.

I want to buy a netbook, but am unsure if I will be able to upgrade it.

1) Can you boot to an external USB-DVD drive? This would be step 1 in installing WinXP

2) Do any netbooks come with XP drivers?

3) Has anyone tried this and had perfect results? I am not interested in doing this if there will be any issues. I definately need all the hardware (Wifi, sound, video, disk access) to poerform 100%.

Thanks!