- Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini movie#
- Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini install#
- Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini serial#
- Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini software#
Nah, I’ll find an alternative option I think.ĭon’t get me wrong, Linux is a fantastic operating system, the best I would say, but I’m not to sure it cuts it in the easy graphics and audio department, what with its limited support from the AMD and NVidia giants// Really? Is it worth my time? For what exactly? Potentially settling for a half working server not exactly how I want it, bodged together from snippets of code lying around the inter web .
Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini movie#
It took me around 4 hours to get the Audio working (which is a stupidly long time in my opinion!) and then spent about 8 hours trying to get my HDTV displaying a 1080p image instead of the lesser 720p – I was even having dreams about ways I could get all the metamodes nicely ordered in the nf file so I could have an adaptive display for my DVD and High def movie playback. It seems my lack of Linux skills has once again let me down! With all my playing in VMWare before hand, I must admit I never did try to a) Get audio working and b) get the graphics working. Okay, I’ve spent a fair few days playing with Ubuntu to try and get it working ** perfectly** on my micro-server.
but really, its not my fault if you screw up!
Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini install#
Fill in all the other details and licence keys just like any other Windows / Server install and then you’re done! On the default install screen, remove then reboot to complete the rest of the set-up)Ģ2. (If you don’t, its not a big issue, it shouldn’t reinstall again and should just be waiting Wait for a little bit while it does the installation, catch it just as it reboots and remove both USB’s. Make sure you only have the 1 disk in the system (the SSD) then boot the system up.Ģ1. Save that and go and plug both the USB’s into the micro-server.Ģ0. Open this file with notepad and paste in the following (and nothing else)ġ9. Create a new text file on the drive and rename it to “cfg.ini” – Make sure that you can see the file extensions and that it has a little cog on it, if it doesn’t, un-check “Hide extensions for known file types” in the Windows Explorer properties box (Tools, Folder Options, View) and remove the. Format the drive in NTFS (Done via file explorer, right click, format, select NTFS, then OK – Google it if you have no idea)ġ7.
Remove the USB key, and stick in the other 2MB (min) flash driveġ6.
Once that’s all done and you get a happy information message, close that downġ5. Read warning 1 and if it is the correct drive, click “OK”, do the same for the 2nd box.ġ4. Change the name to “WHS2011” (Anything sub 11 characters)ġ2. Change the File System to “NTFS” (probably not even needed but I dislike anything with the name FAT in it)ġ0. Tick the box that says “Bootable, only supports Windows bootable ISO image.”ĩ. Select your USB drive from the drop-down list (next to the Refresh button)Ĩ. Select “Browse” and you got it, browse to the location of the ISO fileħ.
Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini software#
Run the exe and install the software using all the defaults (removing any ads if any)Ħ. Stick in the first USB (6GB+ USB) into a USB driveĤ. Download the “isotousb_setup.exe” which is located mid way down the homepageģ. On your local windows machine (hopefully this one) fire up your inter web explorer up and browse to this location Ģ.
Windows home server 2011 cfg.ini serial#
1 x ISO for Windows Home Server 2011 (and a valid serial key)ġ.2 x USB drives (either USB Keys, bus powered USB drives or anything else you can think of) one needs to be a minimum of about 5GB the other can be sub 2MB, yes.You must be joking? Well they are not, I had it crap out on me on install when I removed the default 250 GB drive from my system, but check out the workaround I adopted below. Sorry, what? At least 160 GB hard drive?. If you have a look at the specifications on the Microsoft website here you will see it says: It’s pretty cheap at the moment so have a look around for the best deal!! It was that or either Windows Server 2008 R2 but WHS 2011 is pretty much Windows Server 2008 R2 anyway, except a little cheaper. It really didn’t take much to sway me down the Windows Home Server 2011 route.