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On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:52 AM Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> This is getting a tad O/T, since we're talking about activation of a non- |
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> Gentoo OS, but here it goes: |
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I completely agree. I wasn't expecting the conversation to go this |
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direction when I posted. I'm happy to participate if others want to. |
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> On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 00:39:19 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > I'm going to let the machine sit overnight and see if it activates |
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> > automatically. |
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> It should activate as long as it is connected to the Internet, but there |
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> two different ways of activating Windows 10 manually, should you not do so |
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> during the installation procedure. |
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After maybe 16 hours it didn't activate but logically I don't know why it |
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would have. I've installed Win 10 using the M$ install tool writing to a |
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USB flash drive but I'm not given any product IDs/Keys. M$ would have had |
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to determine on their own with no help from me this was a reinstall and |
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generously activated it which I think is asking too much. |
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Owing that I'm not 100% sure the previous install was actually Win 10 Pro, |
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having updated from Win 7 with their free conversion to Win 10, I'm going |
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to put the old drive back in, double check what version of Win 10 I was |
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using and then try again if I installed the wrong version this time. |
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On a more Linux note I'll build a bootable USB drive with clonezilla and |
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see about cloning the old drive to the new SDD that way. that sort of |
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solution is why I posted here in the first place. Trying the Win 10 install |
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and hoping it worked was just an easy 1-day experiment. |
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Thanks all, |
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Mark |
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P.S. - I'd love to get back to running Gentoo one of these days. For those |
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of us that wanted a stable machine with just a couple of testing packages, |
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especially as the machines become older and the software becomes larger, it |
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just became too many hours building code, especially on these older |
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laptops. Kubuntu has worked well enough for me be there's no better |
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community that you here at gentoo-user for straight forward technical |
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discussion and I want to thank everyone here for years and years of good |
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times and good information. |
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