Posts Tagged ‘Install’

Preparing for a Windows Server 2008 install

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

I’m about to install Windows Server 2008 on an older Dell PowerEdge SC1420 server. It is nicely equipped, with 1x Xeon 2.8 GHz CPU, 2x 2 Gig DIMMs, 2x 250 Gig SATA HDs, and a newly installed DVD-R/W drive. I expect no problems, but I’m prepared for the worst. (more…)

Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge T605

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

So I have this great Dell PowerEdge T605 server that I want to deploy as a Hyper-V server at home (more on why in a later posting), but suffice to say, I had a hard time accomplishing this seemingly trivial task.
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