Request: Pre-Activation Files

[twig123]

I have some requests/question:

I am in need for the Pre-Activation files & Mass OEM Keys for both Home & Pro on Emachine & Gateway Branded PC's (No this is not Illegal or Warez, so don't try to play that card..). I already have the pre-activation files for Dell, HP, Compaq & IBM... but need the above listed to complete my set.

2nd part question:

I am trying to look for a way to add all of the above Pre-Activations to my Unattended CD in a fasion where it would auto-detect the type of system and use the correct pre-activation. Does anyone know how/where I could get this information.

Thanks in Advance,

Dave

Edited April 22, 2006 by discountpc

[LiquidSage]

1st question:

You won't get help for that on this forum. If you owned a comp. from Emachine & Gateway, you wouldn't be asking here.... "so don't try to play that card".

2nd question:

Either make a deploy-able image of each system and select the image at boot menu, or create a Nx1 distro with a menu (that you will need to select from) for each system type.

On-the-fly system detection and system installation is not possible and impractical. Too many small changes in hardware from the manufacturer and users would make it a pain to try to update. You can make a corp. version pretty universal by integrating drivers though (try BTS driver packs).

Edited April 26, 2006 by LiquidSage

[twig123]

Well, I actually do own both an Emachine & Gateway... among many custom built systems.... but the first thing that I do is format the system to take all of the 'Software Packs' (aka crap) off of the system, and doing so removes the pre-activation files that I am looking for. So, I would be very greatfull if someone could help me get those pre-activation files.

2nd of all, the pre-activation files only make sure that it is a system of the same brand, usually by the BIOS/mainboard. so, the pre-activation files are universal between ALL the same branded system that originally came with XP Home & Pro, However the files are different between Home and Pro.

See here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63258#

Bezalel quoted in post#7, that he was working on such a thing... but that was back in 2005, and the post seems dead to me. So, I was just wondering if anyone had ideas on how to do it. Otherwise I can do seperate CD's once I get the pre-activation files.

Thanks in advance

[LiquidSage]

Well, you can call both CO's and argue that since the system recovery was on the HD you had no way of repairing your system when the HD faced a disaster. They should provide CD reecovery disks with the system for free. I've been able to get a free CD recovery set from IBM and also a DVD recovery set for my Sony GRX600 from Sony.

[twig123]

Many Fruitless hours of just that, on top of that can't understand half of them because our lovely country loves to outsource to India....

Give a brotha a hand....

....Now that (Sony) is one I didn't think about... I don't have those files