Roy said:
That's an important question, indeed! It was John Barnes who posted on
11-13-2006 in m.p.w.vista.general Re Vista Upgrade/Full (and I do hope
he allows the quotation):
"You might run into a space problem since my understanding is that the
CD will no longer qualify, it must be an installed and activated system,
so you would need another partition to clean install to. Just a caution
at this point but it was made by a Microsoft employee."
I look forward to a definite clarification...
Roy
See also the posting by Carey Fritsch [MVP] Re Upgrade licence
question today at 03:37 in m.p.windowsxp.general who states that
"With the upgrade version of Windows Vista, no more inserting
the legacy CD for detection. It does compliance checking for
a legacy version of a Windows installation so setup needs to be
started from within Windows to be able to use the upgrade version."
(Quoted not without permission, I hope;-)
The terminology of Microsoft may be disturbing, at least to overseas
customers, as 'upgrading' is used for both 'upgrading a computer with
a new Windows version' and 'upgrading by means of an upgrade version
of Windows'. Sort of;-)
Roy