[ltp] XP Key doesn't work!

[Nick Bower]

So if I'm reading you correctly - I can't actually get XP directly from
a service partition.  And since XP won't honour other partitions, it's
goodbye Linux then.  (From the partition's raw contents below, I see
there is no such i386 folder):

autoexec.bat*  ibmdos.com*    peldr*        tpplga6.exe*   tpplgw7.exe*
autoexec.icr*  ibmrnr.txt*    plnrchk.bat*  tpplgd3.exe*   tpplgw8.exe*
boot.ini*      ibmwork/       preboot/      tpplgd4y.exe*  tptools/
bootsect.dos*  ie55x.exe*     psphd.tag*    tpplgd5.exe*   version.id*
command.com*   launchit.bat*  recovery/     tpplgd6.exe*   win51*
config.icr*    mfg/           Recycled/     tpplgd9.exe*   win51ip*
config.sys*    minint/        rexx.exe*     tpplgm2.exe*   win51ip.sp1*
dos/           ntdetect.com*  rxdinfo.rx*   tpplgt1.exe*   winbom.ini*
finddrv.bat*   ntldr*         scrrec.ver*   tpplgw3.exe*
himem.sys*     pcycle.exe*    tpdiag2.exe*  tpplgw4.exe*
ibmbio.com*    pdldr*         tpdiag.exe*   tpplgw5.exe*



On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 09:54, André Wyrwa wrote:
> The preload install of IBM includes a i386 folder, which consists of
> nothing else than all the install files for the preloaded XP. So what
> you can do (ugly, but should work):
> 
> Recover your original installation from the preload CDs.
> Burn the i386 folder to a CD.
> Install in VMWare from that CD.
> 
> I reinstalled the preloaded XP myself that way after changing
> harddrives.
> 
> André.
> 
> 
> On Mi, 2004-09-22 at 09:27 +0200, Nick Bower wrote:
> > Hi - when receiving my laptop, the first thing I did was blow away my
> > windows xp partition, expecting to use the XP license for VMWare
> > instead.
> > 
> > The trouble is that I tried installing XP Pro within VMWare and it won't
> > accept the Windows XP product license key that came with the laptop - I
> > can only presume this is the volume/retail licensing split, which I
> > hadn't predicted.
> > 
> > Has anyone been able to obtain a compatible XP CD without all the IBM
> > junk or at least derive an XP .iso compatible with my key from the IBM
> > service partition (I can mount it but it's huge)?
> > 
> > nick
> > 
> >