Category «Windows»

Network install Windows from CentOS 6.X

DRAFT how to use syslinux to boot into windows installer DRAFT Setup description and other stuff: NOTE: 192.168.1.104 is the tftp/samba server in my case RouterOS dhcp config comes here CentOS disable fw update yum install xinetd and syslinux configure syslinux install samba configure samba extract iso and share it via samba Windows Download windows AIK …

Deploying a Windows VPS on Proxmox VE

Deploying a (modern) Linux/BSD VPS on a Proxmox VE is easy and requires no extra steps, since they have built in VirtIO support since kernel 2.6.25. For Windows its a bit more tricky, we need to use additional drivers, that can be obtained free of charge and in a neat iso package from here. Upload both your Windows installer and …

MySQL master-master replication on Windows

This post serves as a how to on how to set up MySQL master-master replication. Since I’m doing it on Windows, I wanted to make it as easy as possible, so I will be using a free SQL client, namely SQLyog community edition, that can be downloaded from here. For the MySQL itself the official community edition installer …

Installing older printers on Windows 10

So I had a problem at work: a client had a pretty old printer and after a Windows 10 update they couldn’t install its driver. Let’s see how we can resolve the issue. The printer in question was a Sharp AR5316E and the error message was the following: “Windows can’t install the kernel-mode print driver. To obtain …