Re: Pro OEM vs Pro Retail

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From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:04:01 -0500

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 19:14:45 -0400, "Yves Leclerc"
<yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote:

It can be done but you have to alter the "setuppini" file before doing
the slipstream. See this web site and the following article:

http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/setuppini.html

>I know that the Keys are different. I talking about the install CD. Can I
>not have one new "slipstreamed" CD that I can use to install either OEM or
>Retail. I know that the OLP version of the install Cd is completely
>different.
>
>Y.
>
>"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
>news:%23bt3JBzqEHA.2856@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> OEM and retail each have their own unique Product Key.
>> You needed to do both if you want to install both.
>>
>> --
>> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
>> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>>
>>
>> "Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>> news:eGiqt%23yqEHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>I am in the process of "slipstreaming" Service Pack 2 into two newer XP
>>>Pro install CD. I have both an original XP Pro Retail and a "generic" XP
>>>Pro OEM (not locked to a specific manufacturer/motherboard) CD. I have
>>>done the "slipstreaming" to the both version. Now, my question is: Both
>>>original CDs appear to be the same. Each has the original CD KEY.
>>>Besides the EULA, are the two versions the same? Could I have "gotten"
>>>away only doing one new CD with slipstreaming Service Pack 2, instead of
>>>the two?
>>>
>>>
>>> Y.
>>>
>>> PS: Sorry for the cross-post! Not sure which newsgroup this question
>>> should be posted to?
>>>
>>
>>
>

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