[BDD 2007] Unable to add Operating System

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I have installed BDD 2007 onto my Server 2003 WDS, in an attempt to possibly learn from it. It also appears that using it may improve the efficiency of my department, as well as shorten our server migration time, which is still pending. However, neither of these pluses will happen if I can't figure out how to use the program. Using guides online and within the Workbench itself are pretty clear-cut, however support documentation is lacking in the fact that I cannot find anyone else having the problem I am, nor being a solution for that matter.

I am stuck (you can start laughing now) at the VERY first step! When you right-click on Operating Systems and click New. I select Source files, and have it look at the CD Drive where my XP install CD is located. At first, it would refuse to finish the file copy. Believing that my CD Drive may be at fault (also judging by the CD read errors in Event Viewer) I added a second drive, but it also failed. I ended up copying all the files from the CD onto the hard drive in a folder. I then re-ran the wizard.

The issue seems to be, that after it actually starts the file process, and after it is completed, it is supposed to show the OS I just added in the list, and/or prompt me for something else. This doesn't happen. It creates the folder under \Distribution\ and all of the files are in there, but there isn't anything else that happens. No other options in the program work because it complains that I haven't added an operating system yet.

I installed BDD 2007 from one of our Green MSDN CDs. I found an update for it online, but it appears to be a remote downloader, meaning that internet access is required in order for it to install. My server does not have access to the internet, and I am not allowed to put it on the corporate network (because it would deauthorize our existing servers... something it had done in the past).

So I'm not sure where to go next.

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