Install Windows 7 over PXE from Linux without WAIK1. Introduction. Here's a way to get the Windows 7 PXE deployment from Linux to work. Get the package here. The other things either come with your linux distribution or can be installed most easily with the package manager of your linux distribution (yum, apt- get etc.). Download the package and untar it in your systems root. It will create a /work directory where everything will go.

In the rest of this document I'm assuming yo did this, and the scripts and configuration files inside the archive also assume this. You could always untar it somewhere else and see whats in it of course.. Disclaimer: This info is still under construction, there may be (obvious) errors in here.

Windows Deployment Services (WDS) is a service role that allows you to deploy. Overview; 2. Services; 3. Boot Files; 4. Unattended files; 5. Troubleshooting: 1. Overview 1.1 Introduction Here's a way to get the Windows 7 PXE deployment. This isn't a reflection on. All Windows Server version support the ability to run built-in TFTP server. Though there is no dedicated role or service of the TFTP server (don't look for it.

Most of these files are already prepared in the archive, but not the ones of course that I'm not supposed to redistribute, like the windows boot binaries. This tutorial will tell you where to get them or how to retrieve them from your windows 7 installation media..

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Hyper- V Articles. Linux on Hyper- V is becoming more and more popular as Microsoft continues to increase their support for it. One of the nicest parts about it is the “It Just Works” aspect. For distributions that are less than a few years old, the Hyper- V Integration Components are built right in. There isn’t any time wasted fiddling with scouring the Internet to look for instructions on compiling or even scripting them in. Oh, and if you’re curious if you need to purchase anything from Microsoft in order to run Ubuntu under Hyper- V, the answer is: no. There are paid services from Canonical that you might be interested in, but Microsoft isn’t asking for anything.

No edition of Linux consumes a virtualization right from Microsoft. Last updated September 9th, 2. Xenial Xerus tools. Why Ubuntu? I’m not a Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve been using it off and on ever since I learned about it, but not enough to reach true proficiency.

Setting up a PXE-Boot Server Written by Net Llama! This assumes that you're using Redhat/FC.

These are basically two options for running Wubi from Windows to easily install Ubuntu Linux into your computer. Linux (pronounced /

Traditionally, I’ve been a Red Hat person, but things got strange when Red Hat splintered out into RHEL, Cent. OS, and Fedora, and I started looking at my options. Over the last few years, I’ve switched over to Ubuntu. While I think that Red Hat still wins in the “polish” department, I found that Canonical had really nailed a lot of things in the ease- of- use and approachability departments with Ubuntu Desktop. So, why Ubuntu specifically?

Well, I wanted a major distribution backed by a commercial operation. That way, presumably, if you get really backed into a corner, you can get some paid assistance. Since I’ve never called or paid any of these companies, I guess I just took a leap of faith on the one that I chose (that would be Canonical). As to the exact distribution, I went through a few of them before settling on Ubuntu.

Its installation still isn’t the best; I thought that Cent. OS pretty much crushed Ubuntu on that.

However, once the server was up and running, I had an easier time getting things to work on Ubuntu without a lot of hard stops to go look things up on the Internet. There was guessing, and tinkering, and redoing, but really not much. Why Ubuntu Server Instead of Desktop? As I said, I was really impressed with Ubuntu Desktop. However, version 1. Ubuntu major versions are just the last two digits of the release year; minor versions are the month). The GUI requires 3.

D acceleration now. For hardware systems, that’s not a big deal. Even budget video chips have been doing basic 3. D acceleration for a long time. Servers, though, not so much, and nearly nothing for standard Hyper- V guests.

There are ways to make it better, but you just can’t get back to the interface speeds of 1. In Hyper- V, that’s a deal- breaker for most people in my situation.

There’s no way I’m setting up a Remote. FX system just to run Ubuntu Desktop when all I really need is server capabilities. But, with Server, all you’ve got is the plain- text command- line. For a busy non- expert like me, that can seem daunting. But, let me put you at ease: if you have done as we’ve been begging you and gotten on board with Power.

Shell, even a little bit, or even if you’ve got some DOS in you, Linux is a whole lot easier than you think it is. You see, in Linux, pretty much everything is a file. In contrast, think about a Windows program. You have to install it, which creates two dozen files in eight directories and sixty to a hundred registry entries in every branch.

Then you have to run one of its exe files. Or maybe a com file. Perhaps a cmd file that calls a com file.

Hopefully there’s an lnk that calls at least one of them. There might an exe that attaches to six or thirty- six dll files, some of which might be in Win. Sx. S, or maybe in System. It might read some of those registry entries to get going. It might read app. It might read an inf.

It might have My. Settings. It’s probably got stuff in %APPDATA%, but maybe in %USERPROFILE%.

Hopefully, its programmers learned to keep changeable things out of %PROGRAMFILES% or you’re going to have problems with User Account Control. It might have a developer that thought all of those things were stupid and went off grid doing something no one can predict. All this is if you’re lucky and don’t have to be concerned with whether or not it’s %PROGRAMFILES% because you’re on a 3. PROGRAMFILES(X8. 6)% because you’re on a 6. SYSTEM3. 2 now because someone still thinks that 1. Got all that? Now, back to that Linux program. It may have multiple executables, and that can be annoying.

But, once you hit the right one, it will read a configuration file (which is almost always in plain text), and then it will start based on whatever it found. That, right there, describes about 9. Linux. The hardest part is figuring out what to put into the configuration file.

Any Internet search engine can get you through most of those. On top of that, as I look over my Nagios post, most of what we were doing involved typing in the terminal anyway. So, going with Server (which pretty just much means no GUI) is just not a big deal.

So, let’s get started. Downloading Ubuntu Server.

Acquiring Ubuntu is the easy part. Go to http: //www. Click on Server in the top menu bar. Today, that takes you to http: //www. Click the Download button.

Pick a distribution and get it. The current version is 1. Xenial Xerus”, which is marked as “LTS”. That stands for “Long Term Support”. In Ubuntu’s case, that means that Canonical will provide direct support for this release for five years. By contrast, non- LTS releases are supported for a few months. Upgrades are generally painless in my experience so I don’t personally worry very much about it, but if your organization has tighter requirements, consider only using LTS releases.

You can read about the differences on Canonical’s LTS wiki page. With server, there is no longer a 3. If you are choosing an older or different distribution that still offers 3. Hyper- V integration components only work on 6. Linux guests. The file that you download is an ISO. Put that in a place where your Hyper- V host can find it. How to Build the Linux Hyper- V Virtual Machine.

There’s no GUI and Ubuntu Server is a tiny little OS, so don’t create a large virtual machine. These are my guidelines: 2 v. CPUs, no reservation.

Utilization is going to be really minimal, but all modern operating systems work noticeably better when they can schedule two threads as opposed to one. If you’re strapped, you could limit these. Dynamic Memory on; 5. MB startup memory, 2. MB minimum memory, 1.

GB maximum memory. Ubuntu Server seems to have a sweet spot somewhere around 1. GB. Of course, you can always adjust Dynamic Memory’s maximum upward, even when the VM is active.

Start low. 4. 0GB disk is probably much more than you’ll ever need. I use a dynamically expanding VHDX because there’s no reason not to.

The published best practice is to create this with a forced 1 megabyte block size, which must be done in Power. Shell. I didn’t do this on my first several Linux VMs and noticed that they do use several gigabytes more space, although still well under 1. I leave the choice to you.

In my personal experience, Generation 1 just works better. I’ve noticed this for all virtual machines, but it’s especially true for Linux. The biggest issue with Gen 2 is that it has momentary network hiccups, which is not good for the things I envision using Linux for. Not everyone experiences these problems — your mileage may vary.

If you choose to use Generation 2, remember to turn off Secure Boot because that’s not going to work for Linux until Hyper- V Server 2. The following is a sample script that you can modify to create a Linux virtual machine in Hyper- V. VMName = 'svlinux'. VHDName = '. If you choose right now to name your VM and VHDX accordingly, you’ll have that much less work to do later. From there, a simple Start- VM will get us going. Rev it up and get connected to the console using the method of your choice.