live-cd distro that writes to cd
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 9 20:58:36 UTC 2005
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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?
No. Just added memory. Went from 128M to 384.
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