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I did that too! The world certainly has changed now that installing Windows is easier to do from Linux!

I'm also looking towards using the winre partition to store wins and some kind of iterative snapshots for PITR recovery.

Any suggestion is welcome!



There was a tool called Unattended [1], built to install Windows from Linux via PXE booting. I've used it a couple of times, but it left off at Windows XP (and Server 2003), which is a bit too far beyond for me now. Anyway, I think Windows 7, and definitely Windows 10 are easy to boot from USB, which is almost as good as a network boot.

[1] http://unattended.sourceforge.net/advanced.php


Windows has always been easier to install than Linux lol. Also wmi's have existed forever. Most Windows specific knowledge is found closed with enterprise sysadmins and not shared out in the open- who should be blamed is your choice. I blame ms




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