gz file, uploaded it somewhere for safekeeping.
I wish I could just call up OVH and ask them to do it, but understandably they don't keep monitors hooked up to these servers and it's a huge hassle for them to do it, so it took a week and a half worth of me fighting with them last time before they finally did it for me.ĭoes anyone have any other suggestions? I'm shocked that pnputil combined with the batch file didn't work, I would have expected it to work twice!Īnd in case anyone is curious, what I did was set up a new VM in VMWare with a 20GB virtual hard drive, install the OS, disable the firewall, enable remote desktop and confirm I can ping it/RDP in, then shut it down and make an image using dd from a livebooting Linux. provided you have physical access to the machine. I'm just completely stumped - literally you can run the setup.exe and it will work.
So it seems like Server 2016 still doesn't have the Intel gigabit NIC drivers built-in (which is odd as 90% of those are plug and play). To make this easier on me, I went and bought a second KS3, and I'll let my earlier one expire. Now that Server 2016 is out, I wanted to move my stuff over to that.
The Canadian one doesn't do it anymore, especially not for Kimsufi (the cheap servers) They don't officially support Windows Server due to licensing (I have my own license from Imagine, what used to be DreamSpark) - years ago they used to offer an IP-based KVM option for something like 20 euros an hour, and I was able to use that to set the server up. It took me like two weeks of tinkering and pestering their useless support until I finally got it working - and ironically only by somebody running the Intel network driver setup at the data center. So I currently have a Kimsufi KS3 dedicated server.