I am way behind on this thread, sorry for jumping in late...
Replies mixed in..
(Warning: I go a little more than what Chuck asked.)
From: "Chuck Andrews"
If we local computer shops worked together better I would ask one of them to
burn me a XP Home Upgrade CD with SP2, a XP Pro OEM with SP2 slipstreamed
and a XP Pro Upgrade with SP2 as all of mine either do not have SP 1 or have
only SP1.
As an OEM, you should know enough about the license issue to know you can't even
slipstream your OWN CUSTOMER a CD and give them that with their computer.
Their disk HAS to be made by MS... And then patched with what ever is
available...
(By them, or "maybe" they could pay you to do it later on their own computer
with
their own source media and/or files...) (This is the loophole Bart-PE gets
through.)
I am not even sure you can make them something that would be considered a
back-up
of the system in it's partly installed state. Meaning something that could be
used to recover
an already installed system before they accept the license screen on the "first
run" or OOBE
screens. (You are legally required to have them see that, and accept the
license agreement...)
(If you use this term, a "sealed - or re-sealed" system is what I am trying to
say...)
MS no longer uses the term "OOBE" BTW... (IIRC)
After they see OOBE, you are no longer building the system, you are supporting
it...
Funny how things change at the click of a mouse...
In any event, making a patch and/or slipstreamed CD with your OWN stuff, and
then giving
it away (or selling it) is a GREAT way to get into trouble with MS... (I don't
recommend it...)
I would venture an opinion that it could be looked at as re-distribution of
their software. I think
MS would take a dim view of that...
Note that above I am making the distinction about re-distributing the software
and at the
same time NOT providing any keys...
They would hate it, but not as much as if with (bootleg?) keys too...
When you need replacement MEDIA, I believe the only legal place to get it is
from MS.
(Or a channel distribution partner...)
I have purchased some... What you want, they may not make... Not their
problem...
This is the best reason I know of to own and furnish your media, to install
with the latest updates such as SP 2 slipstreamed.
For your own purposes, I think slipstreaming is "OK". Either MS accepts it, or
can't
"catch you"... Anything else and you are on very shaky legal ground...
Disclaimer: Lots of the above may require access to the MS-OEM site to look up.
As such, some members will have to take this type of discussion on face value...
Rick Glazier, OEM, System Builder, Registered MS Partner.
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