Thank you for wanting to evaluate Cradle.

You will need to enter the Host ID of the computer which Cradle will be installed onto. The Host ID will be used to create part of the security code which ties your Cradle installation to that machine.

To find your Host ID for Windows installations:

1. Click on the Start menu at the bottom left of your windows system.
2. Click on Run.
3. In the Run dialog type: cmd
   
4. Navigate to the boot disk
5. In the Command Window type: vol
6. The Host ID is the Volume Serial Number and it fits the pattern XXXX-XXXX
   
7. We require the this just as the 8 digits, so for the above the Host ID we would require would be: 3C02B81F

For Linux installations:

1. We need the Ethernet address of the /dev/eth0 interface, which is the output from an ifconfig -a command

For Solaris installations:

1. We need the output from the command: hostid (It is an 8 character hex number).