On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 21:50 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
When you say 'your own licence key', do you mean the five groups of five letters/numbers you type in during loading?
I ask, because I built a PIII box for a friend (to replace his dying PI-90) and he supplied a Win 95 CD and Win 98 update, and the Win 95 CD won't work. If I borrow a good Win 98 CD to install with, it will accept that number, will it?
Ooooh that's a tricky one, it's been so long since I have dealt with a Win 98 update disk I can't remember if the keys are the same as the full Win98 installation ones.....My memory says they could possibly be the same...but you'd think they would be different. If the update keys are compatible with the full version ones then yes you can use that key with any installation media.
if not the installer for the Win98 update disk is easily confused into thinking that the machine already has win95 installed (it involves creating a couple of folders/files...can't remember the details you will have to google for it)
I am also assuming that the win98 update isn't the same as newer update disks in that if there is no OS installed it will simply ask for a previous versions installation disk to be inserted to "validate" you have a product to upgrade from.