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Installing Windows on Dedicated Server
Hey guys, so I was reading this: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/81896/install-windows-on-any-wholesaleinternet-preconfigured-server-using-qemu-kvm
I'm trying to figure out how I can install Windows onto my dedicated server from OVH.
I'm just so confused on what I actually need (a direct .iso link), and what to do. If someone could gladly PM me or something and guide me through it, that'd be appreciated.
Thanks!
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You can just start your server in Rescue Mode and then use on of my templates (2012 R2 or 2016) from my website: http://reviews.myhken.com/
Works very good if your OS disk is 2TB or smaller. If 3TB and larger, you will not have usage of more then 2TB on the OS disk. All other disks can use 3TB+
Thank you! So does my OS have to be a certain OS right now before I do all of this? And all I do is go into putty and run: "wget -O- ‘http://sandbox1.myhken.com/KS2012R21new.gz’ | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sda" ?
It needs to be in rescue mode, no OS.
Oh gotcha, thanks! Sorry, I'm new to all this.
Which one do I pick?
Try each of them, your dedi will not blown up and you will learn new thing
another way is you can use OVH builtin KVM feature. You can download the ISO , attach it to KVM and install the server .
Where can I find that feature and where can I find an ISO? Thanks!
I get errors for all 3 of them.
If I use rescue64-pro and I connect with putty and enter this command "wget -O- ‘http://sandbox1.myhken.com/KS2012R21new.gz’ | gunzip | dd of=/dev/sda", I get:
Then if I use freebsd10-amd64-rescue-pro & freebsd11-amd64-rescue-pro, and connect with putty, and enter the same command above, I get:
Any help on what I should do? Thanks so much!
hi xd
The quotation mark around the URL in this command is incorrect. This sometimes happens when you copy a commmand from a browser.
Replace them by typing the single quotation mark directly with your keyboard. Or, in this case, removing them should also be fine.
This is the command you need to type.
Try to manually type it
Hmm...do you still get that "scheme missing" error?
I just tried the command now, and it's working fine here.
I use Rescue64pro
@xddxdd @Luke007 thank you for pointing out the quotation mark issue. I have removed them on my site now. Of course, little strange that it actually work in some rescue modes, but the best thing is just not using them at all.
Thank you to everyone for their help, and especially @mykhen !
Hello @myhken
I tried many times as your guide, but it was not success on my OVH dedicated server (Intel Xeon, 2 x 2TB soft raid). Below are what we tried:
The server can not start with Windows. Login to IPMI, KVM displays: chain on hard drive failed.
It seems the server can not find bootable media.
Please kindly tell me what I have to do to install Windows on my server. Many thanks!
Did you disable monitoring, i have installed windows to my kimsufi ks-1 without problem
You can't use my template on RAID as far as I know. I only use it on single disk setups.
I have not written anything about it my guide, since I have not used RAID my self.
But remember that I had some issues on a online.net server there I had enabled RAID. No sure if I got it sorted out, or I had to use single disk setup. ( 2 x 2TB drives)
Dear @myhken , i cant download your image files from windowstemplate.com guide. Example "http://images2.myhken.com/KS2012R2v003.gz" have 404 error.
If you need a free mirror for your files, i want to help you about that.
Thank you
Howdy there.
I am getting an error as well.
Can I in any way help financially? As much help as your templates have been for me over the years I really can't say how grateful I am.
Has anybody the Windows Templates available or a working script for getting Windows on a WholeSaleInternet Server? I found this
https://www.danpros.com/2017/09/install-windows-on-any-server-using-rescue-system-and-qemu-kvm
but getting errors...:(
What kind of disk does it use? Can you try this?
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/152365/windows-server-2008-template-for-vps
i tried also this:
https://joodle.nl/install-windows-on-a-kimsufi-completely-free/
but dont work with WSI Servers
No Connection.
@danielcardosopt are your images only for VPS or also working with dedicated Server?
also dont work