You will then need to either slipstream the controller driver into the CD or use some type of medium that the OS will believe is a floppy drive to install the driver from during setup.
You can use a USB floppy or format a pen drive to emulate a floppy. You can then press F6 during setup to install the controller driver from floppy.
Most likely you will experience blue screens during installation, and even if you are able to complete the install it will most likely not be stable. If it is necessary that you use then I would suggest contacting your sales rep to return this server. I'm not showing that we currently sell new T's, but I am showing that we have refurbished units available on dell. As Daniel said, it may still be possible to install Just like XP, is not a modern OS, and more and more hardware is not going to work with it.
Use nLite to integrate it if your media only has SP1. You can use nLite to integrate the storage driver too, since can only get storage drivers from floppy disks at the F6 prompt during Setup.
I need to install on a T II also, but am unsure which drivers to slipstream into the OS install disk I was going to create. Of course I would find out later the array was just fine. The next day I emailed Dell tech support and explained how the Windows installation program would only allow me to create a partition of MB. The tech who responded to me suggested that I download the Dell Installation and Server Management Disk and boot from the. I downloaded and burned the.
I chose to install a Windows x64 server, filled in all the field the Server Assistant required, and was finally able to successfully install Windows onto a partition much greater than MB in size! Founder of The Back Room Tech and managing editor. He began blogging in and quit his job in to blog full-time.
He has over 15 years of industry experience in IT and holds several technical certifications. Read Aseem's Full Bio. Then you just run it on VMWare player on the W7 box, just convert it to the newest vm player option on the list.
Feb 19, 5, 0 0. If you pay for support, you should be able to cold boot P2V the machine from any hardware using the VMWare converter. They don't give the cold boot portion away however you need a support contract. Thats the problem, I don't pay for support, so I assume I have to use the converter that is in the plugin for virtual center. As I understand it the utility runs and you point it to the physical server and it virtualizes it in a nutshell , but of course the OS would have to have connectivity for this to work, and it doesnt.
I did find a Broadcom NIC yesterday that i found a trustworthy driver for online. I just need to get that driver onto the machine now Last edited: Apr 13, Paperlantern said:. Jul 11, 4, 0 0. I was going to suggest what virtuallarry did as far as doing a repair install after ghosting to try to fix the blue screen issue. What kind of hardware is this server? I actually did try this.
The server media does not find the previous install after the ghost is complete and only gives me the option of a fresh install.
Not sure which server you mean so I'll give both the server im virtualizing and the server im using as a ESXi server. Go to a machine that has the VMWare tools installed. In there you will find the drivers for the virtual hardware. You need to create either a a virtual floppy with the storage drivers on it and press F6 as the cd boots or b use something like nlite to embed the virtual LSI drivers.
The floppy is easier than you will think right away. Use vsphere to attach a file to the virtual floppy on any virtual machine. It will give you the option to create the file on the datastore. Do so. Now go to the VM and format and then copy the files to the floppy image.
Dismount the floppy file. Then in the install when it asks you to insert a floppy with the storage drivers you hit F6 when it asks early in the load, the prompt will appear several minutes later , mount the virtual floppy with the file on the datastore. It will then load those drivers and find your vmdks disks and then should find the install.
What do you mean by, go to a machine that has the VMWare tools installed? I actually got the NIC working in the old server and got it on the network. I installed the standalone virtualization tool and ran it. If you can scrounge enough temporary disk space and newer drives have plenty , you could create a virtual ide disk and copy all the files over to it -- maybe do a sector copy And then all the problems of data corruption, sleep mode, etc.
Thanks for the cautionary notes, it tells me never to use vmware physical disk access, except perhaps to make a copy of it and only then with a UPS attached. Home » Articles about » Operating Systems » Windows. Sweet article! Some great newer options I've also tried: Disk2vhd , which does HAL migration, but still needed help with the storage drivers you mention.
Its working. Virtual disc is OK. Why SCSI? Did the change in video and sound hardware cause you any problems? User login Username:. Request new password. Who's online There are currently 0 users and 7 guests online. Going virtual I needed a creative solution to this dilemma. Apples instead of oranges The IDE driver file is called atapi. Before you detach your old hard disk, boot it one last time and create a new hardware profile as described here. Detach the old hard disk and put in the new hard disk.
Install your new Windows.
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