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I've been trying to boot my Macbook over the network to install Windows 7 from my WDS server. The EFI doesn't support it however. Neither does the Mac want to boot the discovery CD I've created. Searching the mighty internets for hours has revealed nothing.

The solution is to trick the Mac into BIOS emulation mode. This will make the discovery CD work. You enter BIOS emulation mode by starting the Boot Camp assistant in OS X and pretending you want to install Windows from a CD. Once the Mac reboots to start installing Windows, hold down the option/alt key and select your Windows partition (NOT THE "WINDOWS" CD). It will try to boot an empty partition and complain about it. Reboot and don't touch anything. It'll chime... go black... and ask you to PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM CD-ROM! =D (This seems like a bug, because it won't ask this if you don't try to boot the empty partition first.)

I'm installing Windows from my WDS server right now =D

My user profiles share has restrictions set on it to prevet users from reading each other's files. This broke compatibility with Windows 7 clients. Why? Because Windows 7 profile are not compatible with older ones, so the Windows 7 machine will try to use .V2 as the profile path. That doesn't exists, so it will atempt to create it, and fail. This results in the user being logged on with a temporary profile, and changes not being saved.

The solution is to create a folder named %USERNAME%.V2 for each user in addition to the regular %USERNAME% one. To make the two "different" profiles share desktop/my documents/application settings, enable folder redirection.

I think it's stable enough now. Here you go =)

Norwegian manual attached.

Det irriterte meg at OneCall ikke tilbyr en sum nederst på fakturaoversikten slik at man ser hvor mye penger man har brukt totalt, så jeg lagde en bookmarklet. Dra følgende bilde til bokmerke-linjen din eller tilsvarende for å legge det til =)

Oppdatering: Her er siden med oversikten.

http://www.hardware.no/artikler/naar_maskinen_tar_fyr/72674

Norwegian article about computer fires.

Now that I've got my blog separate from my personal website, I can post without having to think about what other people might concoct in their heads. Also; I can redesign the website to be clean and work related =)

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