How to make an OEM / Restricted Install

[redhatobama]

Hi All,

Firstly, must say this forum is awesome and with all the posts here I have made my own unattended install and slipstreamed all my apps into it very nicely.

I do have a question I hope someone can help with (I have been searching all day and cannot find a straight forward answer), all the hardware in our office is Dell equipment and I was wondering if there was a way to setup my unattended install to only install on the Dell machines here so that if some person were to make a copy of the dvd and take it home it would not work?

I was hoping I could somehow give it a list of MAC addresses or something? Or make it into an OEM-like install so that it reads the hardware manu ID.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[strel]

Binding installing to MAC would the most effective way, but I think it is not possible, though not affirm it. I think you best chance would be net install.

[beats]

Although I've never used it myself, Siginet's OEM ACT seems to be capable of this.

[strel]

OEMSCAN_ADDON_MULTIOEM v1.8 is more updated.

That's quite useful for your admin tasks and a barrier for most people, but the problem is that anyone with the same manufacturer string (BIOS) can use it as you do, moreover anyone knowing that method can take the CD and adapt it to their hardware.