"Bob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I'm volunteering my time to setup 25 new windows XP pro
>machines for the local school. My thought was I would
>build one from scratch, install XP and office and a few
>other programs. I plan on then copying the the disk image
>from one machine to another.
>
>If I don't register XP until after the duplication of the
>disks and for each machine I enter the valid license key
>at registration - will this work... If not any other
>advice on how to get all the machines running without
>spending the hours to install 25 copies of the software
>one machine at a time ?
>
>Second question, is there a way to get to a usb disk drive
>from a boot floppy - then I could just ghost the base
>image and copy it onto each machine without removing the
>hard drives to a third machine for duplication...
For 25 new machines you should look into a volume license for them,
especially if they are going to be using both Windows XP and Office XP
on these machines.
You will get better prices and the volume license versions generally
use the same product key for all licensed copies.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=HowToBuy
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
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