Office 2000 SR-1 is unhelpful.
Microsoft stuck this “Registration Wizard” thing on, which makes it impossible for me to re-install it on these machines, once they’ve been upgraded to XP. Office 2000 calculates some hash based on the “configuration” of the machine and sends it off to Redmond. This is recorded, and registration fails […]
Okay, so the promised mkinitrd scripts aren’t forthcoming. I still need to add some comments. Early next week, I promise.
In other news, I’ve started on my Windows XP adventure. Northwestern has this deal with Microsoft where we get big ‘ole volume discounts, but (of course) with all kinds of restrictions. The […]
I’ve got the machines in the basement booting today, and happily rsyncing. Some of the other code seems to be suffering from bit rot, so I need to investigate more fully why they’re not more useful. Today’s tidbit for the other weenies out there is the script I’m using on the initrd to […]
I don’t know how much I’ve told you about the 10-15 lab boxes in the basement that I’ve been working with. The plan is to have them tftp a kernel and a small ramdisk, partition and initialize their own drives (if necessary), and rsync a root image off the server as part of the […]
Today (and tomorrow, and a bunch of days after that) I’m working on the 10-15 dual-boot machines in the AT Lab on the first floor. They’re designed to have a floppy stuck in them, power cycle, tftp a kernel from the network, rsync their Linux partition, boot, and act as either workstations or sightless, […]