----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: Guide to Building an Unattended XP Install CD
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...
This is how I do it. I identify or refer to the Windows OEM package as a kit
because it contains a thin booklet. The COA is easily removable from the
cellophane wrapper to be affixed to the new computer.
My interest in slipstreaming etc. is to shorten the process of updating the
reinstalls after formatting Drive C. As for now I will stick with using my
CD's with SP2 slipstreamed for the actual installation and update it online.
Since I am not required by Microsoft to furnish any media they did not
produce with Windows XP OEM, I have do desire to do so. I had much rather my
customers bring their computer to me for any reinstallation of Windows. This
is far more efficient than to have to use an outdated CD (one without SP1 or
SP2 slipstreamed on it) and then having to update from there.
No customer can produce any Windows XP media they got from me other than the
Microsoft OEM kit which they paid me ninety dollars for.
Chuck
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