First of all, here's my first post official post on this forum... whoohoo... For the past 2 hours i've been struggling with a unattended win2k3 installation on a VMWare ESX 2.x server When I ran the unattended installation i got a 0x7b blue screen. So for all you people who are having the same problem, here is my solution: 1. Copy vmscsi.sys (from the vmware tools iso) to your i386 (source) directory 2. Edit the i386\TXTSETUP.SIF to contain: [sourceDisksFiles] vmscsi.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 [HardwareIdsDatabase] PCI\VEN_104B&DEV_1040 = "VMscsi" [sCSI.Load] VMscsi = vmscsi.sys,4 [sCSI] VMscsi = "VMware SCSI Controller" 3. Edit i386\DOSNET.INF to contain: [FloppyFiles.2] d1,vmscsi.sys [Files] d1,vmscsi.sys This should solve the problem of the Text-based portion of setup not being able to see your hard drive.