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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