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Shortest path from Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1 Update 1 to Windows 10 (less downloads)

This post was originally stored as a draft I never finished on how to update Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 Update 1 with the least amount of downloads (and time). Before I got around to publish it, Windows 10 was released. So now it will take you all the way from Windows 8 through Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. As many of you know, Microsoft has released Windows 10 as a free upgrade if you have a legal Windows 7 or 8.x installation, as long as you upgrade during the first year (so by 29th of July 2016). To upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 10 you have to first upgrade to Windows 8.1. So lets get cracking. I assume you have a clean new Windows 8 ("Home" or Pro) installed. Shortest path to upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 First, activate Windows 8. Then configure Windows Update to "Let me decide which updates to download and install" Check for Windows 8 updates. Windows will want to update the Windows Update Component itself. Update it. Install the only update you n...
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eth0+N headache in linux with virtual templates

If you keep getting eth1 instead of eth0 as your main ethernet interface on a (newer) linux template/clone in a virtualized environment it's most likely because your udev rules is in affect and creates a new eth1 since eth0 is already defined and bound to the clone/template source's MAC address. This can be fixed in a couple of ways (in your template/clone source image): 1) You can delete the ' SUBSYSTEM ' line in your  /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules : Edit the rules files   vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Delete the SUBSYSTEM line(s), feel free to also delete the comment about PCI device just above: # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules # program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file. # # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single # line, and change only the value of the NAME= key. # PCI device 0x8086:0x100e (e1000) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION==...
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Minimal RHEL & CentOS Kickstart

http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html (old link was http://jons-thoughts.blogspot.com/2007/12/minimal-kickstart.html) http://www.outsidaz.org/blog/2009/06/28/minimal-server-installs-with-kickstart/ http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-March/073951.html Fix for bug in RHEL 5.2/5.3 ks.cfg: http://helmor.com/minimal-redhat5-kickstart.html
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