[TriLUG] machine comparing... possibly OT

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, David McDowell wrote:

> year, I want to be able to do this.  I want to take a snapshot of the
> machine PRIOR to entering in the license key, then I want a snapshot
> of the machine AFTER entering the license key.

can you mount the disk (ro) on a Linux machine and do a 
tripwire (I use viperdb for that function) or do a recursive 
`ls -alF` and store all the directories. Or make a dd copy 
of the before and after and do a compare of the two disks 
after mounting them?

My experience with these keys are that they're machine 
specific (sometimes it's the MAC address of the ethernet 
card). You may not be able to move the install from one 
machine to another even if you know the file. Hell I can't 
install Windows on one machine and move the disk to another 
without getting "NTLDR not found".

Joe

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