live-cd distro that writes to cd

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 9 17:29:19 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:22:28PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> >Well the XP activation system already ties the OS copy to a specific
> >combination of ram amount, HD serial number, ethernet MAC, cpu type,
> >etc, etc.  If more than 3 or 4 of those change from the original
> >activation, then a reactivation is required by calling MS.
> 
> I recently had to reactivate a friends notebook.  The only change, was 
> more memory!

Odd, given that doesn't match what MS claims is the number of changes
needed to make reactivation requried.  No filesystem changes were done
at any point?

Lennart Sorensen
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