this time on a Dell… network drivers did not get installed, called Activation line they claimed the installation id was invalid
from this website
Great tip. I actually tried what you did but had no luck, which was a function of the drivers i had available to me, not your good idea 🙂
The way i found around it was quite ingenious:
Pre-lan install, when the activation screen came up, i hit Winkey+U for the Accessibility helper. This window had a link to the MS website that, if you clicked, brought up IE. Once IE was up, i just had to “navigate” to my cdrom and run the MSI installer for my network driver.
Thanks for the inspiration though 🙂 Now i’m all activated and happy as a clam!