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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">4 – I wonder if a Fedora live CD/ISO has the ability to format</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">and write to NTFS partitions? </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">A variation on</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">this</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">option</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> promising. Here are the steps:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">1 – Download a Fedora 16 Live ISO; use ISO uploader to copy it to your ISO storage.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">2 – Make sure you also have a Windows 2003 ISO and virt</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">io-win</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> VFD in your ISO storage.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">3 – Provision a VM with system drive the size you want and OS Windows Server 2003.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">4 – Select your newly provisioned VM and “Run once”. Put the CDROM first in the boot order.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">A</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ttach the CD to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">your Windows 2003</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> ISO.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> Attach the floppy to your virtio-win VFD.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">5 - Press F6 when the Windows setup boots; after it loads, press "S" and load the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Red Hat virtio driver.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">6 - Start a Windows installation as normal; create a partition do a quick NTFS format.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">7 - Abort the install as soon as the format finishes.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">8 - Stop your VM.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">9 - Do "Run Once", putting the CDROM first in the boot order again. This time attach the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">CD to the Fedora 16 Live</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">ISO.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">10</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Do something else</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> several minutes later while that Gnome picture slowly paints.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">11</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> –</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">When it finally finishes painting that screen picture, l</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">aunch a terminal window.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">12</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> - In the terminal window, do the following:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas"> ls /dev | grep vda</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">13 - You should see files named vda{nn}, where {nn} is a number. The one you want is probably vda1.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">14 - mkdir /greg</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> mount -t ntfs /dev/vda1 /greg</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> cd /greg</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> mkdir /Windows</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> rm (or rmdir) anything else sitting there.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">15 - Stop your VM. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Do another</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">"Run once."</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas"> A</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">ttach the Windows 2003 ISO to your</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">CDROM</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> and wirtio-win VFD to your floppy. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">16 -</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">Press F6 again to load</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> Red Hat virtio block driver as before.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> Do</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> a normal Windows 2003 install; note that</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> this time</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> it will find a /Windows</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> directory and prompt</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> to install into another directory. Here is where you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">install</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> into /WINNT.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">17 - Use ntbackup to backup and restore the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">C drive and system state from the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">source</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">server</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">on top of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Consolas">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas"> newly built VM.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Consolas">- Greg</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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