My school has some sort of site-licensing deal with MS where they let us
download the CD contents for XP, and then give us a key to use with it;
so I guess this could be what's messing the SunPCI up. I managed to
find a document from Sun about the retail vs. OEM thing, though, and it
seemed to say that the reason OEM CDs weren't supported was because they
usually had vendor-specific drivers and whatnot on them. I wouldn't
think the CD my school is giving out would have anything like this on
it, but maybe it's still not the same as the retail version.
-Ben

Elias wrote:
> It actually is in the docs but you have to read the wording carefully.
> For example in the Sun PCi 3.2.1 User's Guide, Installing Windows XP
> Professional, page 38:
> "Make sure that you have the following media and information available
> before you begin installation:
> Windows XP Professional retail installation software CD"
>
> It sneaks the word "retail" in there, which by omission of OEM CDs means
> that you can't use OEM CDs.
>
> Elias