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Bootable USB for Windows 7 Install

DISKPART

LIST DISK

SELECT DISK 1  or whatever disk # is associated with your USB stick

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

ASSIGN

EXIT

Then from the BOOT folder on a Windows 7+ install disk:

BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 X: – where X is the drive letter for the USB stick

IE First Run Page

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value: DisableFirstRunCustomize
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0 to show the First Run page;
1 to show the First Home Page or Start Page;
2 to show the Welcome to Internet Explorer page
Default: 0

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Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value: RunOnceComplete
RunOnceHasShown
Type: REG_DWORD
Default: 0

YUM Install issues – NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6

warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6

Public key for fuse-devel-2.7.4-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm is not installed

I was getting the above when trying to install the FUSE software to get S3FS going on my RHEL4 server.  It appears this error isn’t uncommon with many different packages, so you may see a similar error, with the fuse-devel changed to the package you’re trying to install.

After doing a little research, I was able to find what I needed to get the key installed:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

The link I found was actually for RHEL5, but I just changed those references to 4 and it installed the necessary settings.  I could then do the:

yum install fuse fuse-devel python-devel

And got it going.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Windows 7 RTM – Selecting the edition

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090725/changes-to-the-windows-7-install-process/:

Up and until RTM, the ISO image files of Windows 7 that Microsoft distributed (and third-parties distributed) are labeled with a version. For the most part, this has been “Ultimate”. Even though the install image “install.wim” in Windows 7 still contains four versions, one version is automatically installed determined by a file called “ei.cfg” in the “sources” directory on the install disk.

To get around this limitation, simply deleting the “ei.cfg” file will allow you to choose a version to install (illustrated above).

Win7 SendTo

  • Click Start and then Run
  • In the window that opens type shell:sendto, and Windows Explorer will open directly to the “Send To” menu location.
  • Simply create a short cut to the location you want to add to your menu, and close explorer