[ltp] XP Key doesn't work!

[André Wyrwa]

Actually for me it was a bit easier, because i made two XP installations
on one machine. So i installed the other one first and then used this
installation to install the IBM one.

But afaik the installation routine of a bootable XP setup CD should
offer an option to take the installation files from a different location
- if i remember right.

I fear one has to have a bootable setup CD in any case - or then a
previously boot floppy might also work. I'm not used to VMWare, i
thought there might be a possibility to install without booting into it.

André.


On Mi, 2004-09-22 at 15:42 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / André Wyrwa <a.wyrwa@gmx.de> was heard to say:
> | I reinstalled the preloaded XP myself that way after changing
> | harddrives.
> 
> So, how'd you manage that exactly. I've still got the bootable XP
> partition, so I can grab all the /i386 files, but I don't see anything
> in there that's going to function as a "bootable install media" under
> VMWare, though that's exactly what I want to do.
> 
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>