HELLO! CAN ANYONE READ THIS?

2190 IO | DR MARTIN LAMBERT

[sionnsar]

The weekend was more fun; I was able to sucessfully test my home-made Windows XP Pro SP3 CD. It loaded my licenced copy of XP Pro onto a "naked" PC with Service Pack 3 included. [cool]

Cool indeed! Though my computer work this weekend was limited to an installation of Hardy Heron(? Kubuntu 8), re-loading my user directory (didnt partition /home separately), and trying to tweak things to get them right.

Like getting the keyboard installation right...

[Darksheare]

Or did you merely space the ones in the specific room?

[sionnsar]

The one downer was that, after that bit of fun, I couldn't get my Kubuntu DVD to work on the same machine [Compaq Presario 450MHz P3 224MB RAM, 15GB c:\ and 13GB D:\]. But, I had fun tweakin' with it, anyway.

Thatś a bit of a small machine for Kubuntu, no?

[Darksheare]

Yikes!

[darkangel82]

Yes.

[Monkey Face]

If I tell you, I’ll have to kill you.

[HKMk23]

The XP CD was actually spurred by my recent effort to get my installed copy back into the realm of “legal”. When I had it fixed after my HD crash, the product key had been changed to the corporate product key where I’ve been working the last seven years.

Yeah, I had brough my original CD to the office, that day, but it’s a pre-SP2 CD, so the tech just used a CD that had the corporate image on it, instead, since that one was post SP2.

Viola! XP install was happy again, but product key wasn’t mine.

so, last week I located a utility on the MS website that allowed me to change the XP product key, so I went in and changed it to the one that matches my product CD.

Then, I thought I’d go ahead and slipstream SP2, and SP3 and burn a new Product CD so I’d never get caught short if another hardware failure required O/S repair/restoration.

Odd, perhaps, but I think I I sleep better, now.

[Monkey Face]

It’s not nice to mess with the balance of things on the Lower Levels.

Life could get ugly down there.

[Monkey Face]

Bring it on!

[sionnsar]

Be careful what you ask for. It’s no page-turner; it’s 700+ pages of mind-numbing technical legalese.

[Monkey Face]

Um...I do mind-numbing. I won’t be looking for excitement...I’ll be looking for mistakes. :o]

[HKMk23]

You’re gung ho. What did you end up proofreading, today?

[sionnsar]

Glad you got there, but I’ve not dealt with creating Windows installation CDs so I’m just out of it.

[sionnsar]

Ah. The big mistakes aren’t typos though... *\;-)

[Monkey Face]

Nothing, yet. I just signed up and will read all the wherefores and howevers tonight before I plunge into Chesterton.

[Monkey Face]

Oh. You mean for continuity? Grammar? Phraseology?

[HKMk23]

Understand.

Personally, it wasn’t THAT difficult. I’m more intrigued as to why the Gutsy Gibbon DVD kept failing install at 15% right after defining drive partitions.

I mean, the computer’s old, and I got a nastygram about the BIOS being too old (pre 2000) each time I booted the DVD, but it did exceed stated system requirements.

I’m stumped, but havent yet had the time to research possible causes for the failure.

[sionnsar]

Oh boy, get into those areas and we're toast. This is stuff written by engineers, after all.

No actually, there are certain introductory explanatory areas that are simply wrong. Nobody's fixed them (yet) because they're not important for creating working implementations -- my advice to new implementers is "ignore [this] stuff" and you'll be fine.

[sionnsar]

That is odd, but I’ve had similar experiences (once or twice) attempting to install Linux on older machines.

[Monkey Face]

Well, I’m on record as having offered!

And with that, I’m gone for tonight. Got a little bit of fever right now, so I need to get rid of it. See you tomorow!