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...
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.