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9/29/2008 Home Networking Revamp
This will be a bare bones machine as far as possible, running the brilliant MCEBuddy to convert recorded TV to avi & mp4 for playback on xbox360 and ipod/iphone. I will run the network shares to all my home machines, ps I tried Mesh a while ago and decided that without the Mac client, I wasn't interested, I have now scammed access to the Mac beta and am running happily across many machines, and have finally turned off Foldershare. 8/12/2008 Hyper-V and WirelessJust a quick thank you pingback to Daniel Oxley at http://blogs.technet.com/doxley/archive/2008/07/07/disconnecting-hyper-v.aspx for his (simple, but clever) fix for wireless networking on Hyper-V, to paraphase a political quote, it's the bridging stupid. Thanks Daniel. Server 2008 on a LaptopFirst off, a recommendation on the Windows Server 2008 to Workstation Manual - a fine site with a step by step process on setting up Server 2008. I installed a Server Enterprise build, and my first problem was wireless not activating. Simply, you need to add a Feature in Server Manager to enable the wireless service. Next, installing Hyper-V also didn't like wireless much, but this is by design. A couple of good blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/nicold/archive/2008/04/15/how-to-use-hyper-v-with-a-wireless-network-connection.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2008/01/09/using-hyper-v-with-a-wireless-network-adapter.aspx cover how to set this up. 8/11/2008 Thinkpad X300 & Windows Server 2008
Just acquired as my new work machine is the lightweight Lenovo ThinkPad X300. It's diskless, using a 64Gb SSD as storage. I plan to keep a little blog here of install experiences. The small disk is a bit of a challenge, so I've allowed 20Gb for Server 2008 and will install Vista 64 in the remaining space and buy a shiny USB 500Gb drive. More later... 7/30/2008 iPhone 3G
7/3/2008 More Toshiba Experiences...More fun with the re-install, as I really want a working XP SP3 on my Toshiba tablet. I had tried unsuccessfully booting from SD and suspected a hardware fault, until I searched the interweb.
Turns out that the M200 won't recognise SD cards bigger than 1Gb, so I ran the Toshiba SD card format and boot utilities (having found the Vista versions) and booted successfully with a Windows 98SE OEM boot disk image ;-)
Right now re-installing, trying to work around fdisk'ing and formatting for an XP install, but all looks refreshingly promising. Looks like Debian is relegated to the old Compaq laptop for now. 6/30/2008 Reinstalling a Toshiba M200 with no CD...This has been a nightmare. The M200 seems to be very picky about what USB CD/DVD ROM drives it recognises, and definitely won't boot from USB. It's possible to boot from SD card using a Toshiba SD format utility and floppy copy tool, but that won't run on Vista, and I can't find a reliable boot image anyway. The machine will, however, boot from CF card, but it also seems impossible to create a bootable XP CF card. I have tried all sorts, right from building a VMware machine and connecting CF as a physical USB drive, but that didn't work either.
Seems that Linux has a few interesting tools for boot management and recovery, but the GRUB bootloader is a nightmare too, trying to configure successfull for a CF boot, with a USB boot image, or mounting a USB CD ROM.
Ubuntu (Hardy and Gutsy) boot ok with a SYSLINUX formatted CF, but crash during install.
So, the winner is...Debian - nice and clean - copy the contents of a business card iso to a CF card prepared with SYSLINUX, rename the isolinux folders to syslinux and boot happily!
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My home network always seems to be in a state of flux, however, I'm getting some customer dis-sat from the family on the irritating noise coming from my x64 Vista MCE machine and the Windows Home Server. As a solution, I'm proposing to rejig an old laptop to run Vista Ultimate with 2 external USB drives (total 650Gb) and 2 of my old USB 
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