On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:52 AM Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is getting a tad O/T, since we're talking about activation of a non- > Gentoo OS, but here it goes: >
I completely agree. I wasn't expecting the conversation to go this direction when I posted. I'm happy to participate if others want to. > On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:39:19 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I'm going to let the machine sit overnight and see if it activates > > automatically. > > It should activate as long as it is connected to the Internet, but there are > two different ways of activating Windows 10 manually, should you not do so > during the installation procedure. > After maybe 16 hours it didn't activate but logically I don't know why it would have. I've installed Win 10 using the M$ install tool writing to a USB flash drive but I'm not given any product IDs/Keys. M$ would have had to determine on their own with no help from me this was a reinstall and generously activated it which I think is asking too much. Owing that I'm not 100% sure the previous install was actually Win 10 Pro, having updated from Win 7 with their free conversion to Win 10, I'm going to put the old drive back in, double check what version of Win 10 I was using and then try again if I installed the wrong version this time. On a more Linux note I'll build a bootable USB drive with clonezilla and see about cloning the old drive to the new SDD that way. that sort of solution is why I posted here in the first place. Trying the Win 10 install and hoping it worked was just an easy 1-day experiment. Thanks all, Mark P.S. - I'd love to get back to running Gentoo one of these days. For those of us that wanted a stable machine with just a couple of testing packages, especially as the machines become older and the software becomes larger, it just became too many hours building code, especially on these older laptops. Kubuntu has worked well enough for me be there's no better community that you here at gentoo-user for straight forward technical discussion and I want to thank everyone here for years and years of good times and good information.
