Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that >> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They >> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran into >> that before tho, it installed fine but gave 30 days to put in the >> number. Does winders 7 have something similar? > > When you install Windows 7, Vista or XP (SP3 or newer), you can > actually skip the product key step and it'll install as a trial > version (30-day? 90-day? something like that). You can then "upgrade" > to the real version by activating it when you're comfortable that > everything is working properly -- or don't activate it at all and > install Gentoo. Trying to keep it on-topic. :) > >
This whole thread is off topic as it gets. Fire away. Heck, talk about the weather. It could be more on topic than a Linux list talking about fixing a windoze install. ROFL Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
