Yes. But another poster commented on an activation issue and I will not
have an upgrade edition pk until tommorow to test against. I have a some
virtual machines set up for all sorts of upgrade edition scenarios.

"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Colin Barnhorst wrote:[color=green]
>> You cannot use an upgrade edition to flatten the system and start all
>> over. You need XP to be installed and activated before running Vista
>> Setup. You do not need updates after SP2. Only a full edition of Vista
>> can install Vista the way you are trying to do. Vista does not verigy XP
>> via a shiny media chedk. Sorry.[/color]
>
> Colin, have you seen this -
> [url]http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932[/url]
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> Tom Porterfield[/color]