Macbook Pro nLite Question

[Ryvius]

My situation:

I'm a Mac user who likes to have the best of both worlds. Bootcamp let me run both OSX and XP on the same drive.

However, Microsoft thinks I'm a pirate. I used my Dell OEM WinXP cd to install on a partition thinking I could use my old WinXP Upgrade Product Key to activate it. After trying to alter the registry to remove all traces of Dell's slipstreamed Product Key, I realized I was hosed.

So now with 20 days left to activate I'm trying to use my original WinXP Home Edition Upgrade I bought a month after XP came out.

What I'm trying to do is slipstream SP2 into it, and then copy the contents of ancient Win98 SE cd into the same DVD and make it all bootable.

Why, pray tell, would I copy my 98 cd into the same ISO? My Upgrade requires that I verify I am the owner of a previous version of windows.

Why not just eject the CD and put in your 98 CD to verify, you ask? Because I'm a Mac user and we're such elitist bastards that we decided that EJECT buttons on our hardware would be beneath us. I cannot EJECT the **** CD until the OS is installed and I've loaded my Mac specific drivers to enable the keyboard hardware functions.

So now I'm trying to construct a master DVD full of an SP2 upgraded version of XP along with enough of my Win98 CD so I only have to press "Enter" when it checks for 98, thus bypassing the need for me to eject anything.

Am I crazy? Is this possible with nLite? Please tell me. I've been trying to get this to work on my legitimately bought software for half a week now.

I sincerely do not wish to pay another 90 dollars for something I've already bought.

Advice, opinion on this weird situation is desperately needed and appreciated...

Ry

[IcemanND]

Don't know if it will work or not, but what about adding the applecdeject tool on the cd and run it from detached programs so that you eject key would work. You can extract it from the driver installer from apple.

[Madhits45]

This is why M$ sucks. I two have a none bootable windows xp disc I use. I got a friends copy and I use that with my key but who knows if I'm even legit. I freakin HATE M$ and now they have WGA making our lives even worse. We need to rise up against this BS. Come on people.

[Troglodyte]

So now I'm trying to construct a master DVD full of an SP2 upgraded version of XP along with enough of my Win98 CD so I only have to press "Enter" when it checks for 98, thus bypassing the need for me to eject anything.

I don't have much free time anymore because of an intense College schedule... but this trick I discovered myself back in 2004 may work. It concerned Windows 2000, but it may work for Windows XP as well.

Click this link to go to the page in which I described my discovery:

can any one here help with this problem

Let me know if it works for you... I'm curious and hopeful that it might.