Zachary Loeber's Blog

Just another tool making, complexity eating, infrastructure and workload automating, DevOps soldier.

Converting a Physical machine to a vmware file

2008-03-12 1 min read Virtualization Zachary Loeber

Just an FYI, don’t try to use the vmware converter program to convert a windows 2000 workstation to a virtual machine. It just doesn’t work. It takes hours and when it is done it tries to setup the disk as a scsi device but doesn’ t install the drivers. Even if you install the drivers ahead of time you may get a BSOD on boot about an inaccessible boot device. Instead use VisionCore’s vConverter. It worked great the first time for me (and then a second!).

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Headless torrentbox with ipblock

2008-02-14 2 min read Linux Networking Ubuntu Zachary Loeber

As you may or may not know there are a lot of people who seem to be interested in the torrent activities of others. Some just like to track, others are government agencies, and of course the RIAA. I personally don’t like this intrusion into my habits so I do my best to block their attempts. In this small tutorial I’m going to cover how to install torrentflux with ipblock and fail2ban in a headless mode so you can download and seed torrents a bit more securely.

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Mouting ISO’s in Windows

2008-01-29 1 min read Microsoft Zachary Loeber

I just downloaded the 4 iso images needed to install vista and wanted to use vlite to make the 4 iso’s into one while at the same time removing a bunch of extra crap that gets installed by default. Well I have no desire to burn 4 discs just to have to copy them all back to the hard drive so I looked for an iso mounter to virtually access the files I needed. MagicISO  Virtual CD/DVD-ROM (freeware) fit the bill perfectly.

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Moving the PDC Emulator FSMO Role – Time Server Issues

2007-11-02 2 min read Microsoft Networking Zachary Loeber

I did not want this to be my first post but it needs to be posted out there somewhere for all to read.

There are plenty of documents out there on how to seize the FSMO roles in a windows 2003 domain controller, so I’ll not discuss how that is done. But many of them do not tell you a few extra steps needed if you are moving the PDC Emulator role and that server is (as it should be by default

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