Once Windows Deployment Services is installed and running, locate the folder where WDS is installed.My install is in D:\RemoteInstall. Rename pxeboot.n12 in D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64 to pxeboot.0. Rename abortpxe.com in D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86 to abortpxe.0. Download syslinux. I used version 5.04. Your mileage may vary with other versions. From the syslinux archive, extract core\pxelinux.0, com32\menu\vesamenu.c32, com32\modules\chain.c32, memdisk\memdisk to D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x86…
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Useful Commands for Windows Subsystem for Linux
wsl -l -v – check current WSL version in use wsl -–set-default-version 1 – set default WSL version. Currently 1 or 2. wsl -–set-version Ubuntu-20.04 2 – convert WSL version to version 2 where Ubuntu-20.04 is the name of the distribution.
Useful Tools
Link Compilation Awesome Sys-admin – A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources. free-for.dev – A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev Linux tldr Simplified – Human-friendly MAN pages Linux Command – Shell scripts tutorial
How to resolve incorrect time with Windows Domain Controller
The Domain Controller should be the definitive source for time for the entire Windows Domainnetwork. It needs to sync directly to NTP servers and not the hardware clock of the machine it’s onwhether it’s a virtual machine or a physical server. That means don’t set VMware Tools to sync time for the guest. There are…