krough1 Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 I am working on installing server 2003 with windows PE 2.0I have the basic win PE ISO built, and I have placed the W2K3 i386 folder in the /iso directory prior to creating the iso. As I understand it shouldn't the /i386 folder I placed in the iso location be mounted as something other than x: during the PE boot?Or am I missing something here?Any insight is appreciated.
Tripredacus Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 What behaviour are you seeing with your CD? Is it not doing something properly? Is there an error or a message?
krough1 Posted February 27, 2009 Author Posted February 27, 2009 Well, I just fixed the problem. I was testing this in VMware. For some reason, the 2nd disk would never get mounted with my \i386 and \sources. I just now burnt a DVD and did a physical boot and now I have a X: and D: with my D:\i386 in place. Any idea why this happens in a virtual environment? Is it particular to VMware?
Tripredacus Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 I'm not sure. I do all my Win PE testing on a pilot network using physical servers and clients. I try not to use VM type sessions for testing because it does not translate well into the production environment.
iamtheky Posted February 27, 2009 Posted February 27, 2009 If you are burning a disc then loading the disc into a VM, you are not by chance mounting that disc in the VM settings are you? That would seem to cause issues.Have you used just the iso to load the VM and seen similar behavior, or just set it to use the host CD drive rather than mount the disc?
krough1 Posted February 27, 2009 Author Posted February 27, 2009 (edited) OK. Using the hosts physical DVD drive as the source works. I get both X: and D: Before I was mounting the ISO as an image in the virtual machine settings, and I would only get x:, d: would never enumerate. Does anyone know why this is the case?Thank you. Edited February 27, 2009 by krough1
WreX Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 It sounds like you need to add the drivers for the VM hard drive controller to your PE image.
iamtheky Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 the next available letter after the system C: is D: unless modified.So you mounted the CD drive into the VM as the D:when you just used passthrough from the host it worked because D: was free.in my best estimation.
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