| Well, BigDog, you got me thinking... I have to use a laptop to load the OS on the hard drive for my Gateway or Virgin web device anyway... Why not use the OEM disk from that laptop vendor? So, I used a Dell OEM wheel of WinME on my old (very old) Dell laptop. I carried out the 'install' on the laptop through the point of the first reboot. (This gets you past the little problem of the 'future' home for the HD and OEM disk not matching.) Then I transplanted one HD into the Gateway and next I setup a disk for the Webplayer. Here is an undocumented switch to let me use a 133 mHz laptop that did not meet any minimum requirements for WinME: Setup /nm The /nm will tell Setup "no minimum" check. Of course, I own legal copies of WinME for each computer that runs it. But, those are upgrade versions; there is no way to show the old Win98 disk to the stupid install program since the Web Devices can't run a CDRom at that point of the install. Bless MicroSoft and Bill Gates and their particular ways of getting software into machines. | |
