Vista RC2

Do you have more than one CD-ROM or CD-R/CD-RW on the host system?

You can explicitly put the drive letter you want, like "D:" or "E:". "auto detect" just makes it use the first drive it finds. make sure the type is "cdrom-raw".

Also try Creating a new LivePC, select the Advanced setting, and make the Path change to ide1:0 for the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM device

If this does not help, please provide the following information to [email protected] so we may assist you better.

1. Model of CD-ROM/DVDROM from Device Manager on host.
2. the vm.vmx and vmware.log from the [LivePC's]\activation folder when not the CD-ROM/DVDROM is not accessible

The vm.vmx and vmware.log can be found in the following location:
* For Desktop Installation: C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username]\Application Data\moka5\Engine
* For USB Insstallation: device_letter:\moka5\Documents and Settings\moka5User\Application Data\moka5\Engine

Thanks

Kevin

Hi Kevin - thanks for the quick response. The CD Icons do show up, it is just that for whatever reason, it doesn't recognize the win95 disk. More importantly (as I really don't care about loading win95 or NT and was just doing that to see if then I could update it to Vista) is that the VISTA CD is recognized fine and the install starts, however I get the error message "This Computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu." This message shows up for both partitions that I created. No matter what I do, after creating a new partition and formatting, when I click on NEXT, I get the message "Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation"

The system is a Gateway dual core AMD with Windows MCE running on a Western Digital 250MB Drive and has a DVD burner (Philips DROM 52616) and a dvd drive (TSSTCORP TS-H552B)

Any ideas on how to correctly install Vista would GREATLY be appreciated. Thanks!

VMX FILE BELOW
#!/usr/bin/vmware

config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"

uuid.location = "7e e4 22 aa 29 ed 7f b4-19 1d d5 be 03 dc 2d 6c"
uuid.bios = "7e e4 22 aa 29 ed 7f b4-19 1d d5 be 03 dc 2d 6c"
uuid.action = "keep"

tools.remindInstall = "false"
tools.syncTime = "true"

gui.fullScreenAtPowerOn = "true"

# Memory trimming: returns guest free memory back to host
# Has little impact, but can affect disk performance in guest
#MemTrimRate = "0"

# Page sharing: store guest pages with identical content as a single COW page
# Disable when host memory is plentiful and I/O latency is important
#sched.mem.pshare.enable = "false"

displayname = "Vista RC2"
memsize.min = "512"
memsize = "2048"
logo = ""
floppy0.present = "true"
floppy0.filename = "A:"
floppy0.startconnected = "false"
ide0:0.present = "true"
ide0:0.filename = "system.cdsk"
ide0:0.disksize = "20000"
ide0:0.should_persist = "true"
ide0:0.startconnected = "true"
ide0:1.present = "true"
ide0:1.filename = "local.cdsk"
ide0:1.disksize = "20000"
ide0:1.should_persist = "true"
ide0:1.startconnected = "true"
ide1:0.present = "true"
ide1:0.filename = "f:"
ide1:0.disksize = "2048"
ide1:0.should_persist = "true"
ide1:0.startconnected = "true"
ethernet0.present = "true"

usb.present = "true"
usb.generic.autoconnect = "true"
sound.present = "true"
sound.startconnected = "true"
scsi0.present = "true"
guestos = "longhorn"
ide0:0.devicetype = "disk"
ide0:1.devicetype = "disk"
ide1:0.devicetype = "cdrom-raw"
ethernet0.connectiontype = "nat"
ethernet0.addresstype = "generated"
sound.virtualdev = "es1371"
scsi0.virtualdev = "buslogic"
ide1:1.present = "true"
ide1:1.filename = "g:"
ide1:1.devicetype = "cdrom-raw"
ide1:1.disksize = "2048"
ide1:1.should_persist = "true"
ide1:1.startconnected = "true"

Hi lrecht,

I think I fixed this problem by editing the VMware bios (press F2 when the moka5 logo shows up) and turning on "Use 32 bit I/O" for the hard drives. If you still have problems, let me know and I can send you a link to my working, packaged version. (I did a full install of Vista Ultimate so it's a pretty big LivePC - 3GB...)

-John