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…)
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Preparing for a Windows Server 2008 install
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 on a Dell PowerEdge T605
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010So 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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