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\xp_x86 with the extracted drivers from the LSI site (see chapter 3).
The needed settings can be found in the symmpi.inf file, located in the temporary folder. The 14 bold items (above) which ends with: “symmpi” must be added at the end of the section.
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The driver symmpi controls a piece of hardware that’s identified by the PCI VendorID and the PCI Device ID, like: PCI\VEN_1000&DEV_0030 This section holds the mapping of physical PCI resources that will be controlled by the various drivers. The numbers 4 and 20 both point to the corresponding The 2 yellow/bold line with symmpi.xxx = 1xxxxx must be added under the. the file ‘symmpi.inf = 1,20,0,0’ can be copied to the %Systemroot%\Inf\ folder. This section controls how source files are copied to their destination and what their properties will be. 4 = system32\drivers maps the number 4 to %Systemroot%\system32\drivers.
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The folder is identified by the Windows setup by the number it was assigned to. This section maps a physical directory, it doesn’t mather if it’s absolute like ‘\’ or relative like %Systemroot%. * In this file the following sections are important for us and needs some modifying: i386/ folder of the unattended folder structure with something like notepad. * Edit the TXTSETUP.SIF file located in the.
* Because we use the unattended CD/DVD installation method, we only adjust the txtsetup.sif file and some other files.ĥ. * The textmode phase is invoked after the reboot from the copy phase or when booting from the (unattended) installation CD/DVD. O TXTSETUP.SIF Used by the text mode phase of the setup and prepares for the GUI phase of the setup. O LAYOUT.INF Used as a template for file copy operations. O DOSNET.INF Used by WINNT.EXE/WINNT32.EXE during the file copy phase of the setup There are three files you have know about: Controlling this files = controlling how Windows setup behaves. * Windows Setup uses a number of key files to control how Windows Setup behaves. => The latest symmpi.sys file version 1.26.5.0 doesn’t work and stops with errors! So we continued to use the 1.20.18.0 version. => If you use a older version of Vmware ESX there can be a version conflict with the latest SCSI-drivers, so you need the driver version before 1.10 (see the last chapter for more details). * Download the driver file and extract it with a tool like WinRAR to a temporary folder. * Go to and look for the right LSI20320 SCSI adapter driver ( = WHQL version 1.20.18) for your guest operating system: WindowsXP. \windows\program files\VMware\VMware Tools\Drivers\ are the drivers needed later! * After you have copied the windows.iso file to your system, extract it with a tool like WinRAR (see: ) to a temporary folder. Beware of version conflicts! (see last chapter). => Always use the tools from your Vmware system. * On the file system of your ESX machine the windows.iso file is located in: /vmimages/tools-isoimages/ * Start with downloading the actual version of de VMware tools from the Vmware site or better copy the windows.iso file from your VMware ESX 3.xx machine by using a tools like WinSCP (See: ) If you are happy with it, because it was helpfull, just let me know by a little email to Get the right drivers for VMware => I tried to write this instruction in English, so it can be read by a lot of you. => Make certain that system file are being displayed on your system, otherwise you will get a problem!
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We searched a lot and found a way to add the needed LSI SCSI-drivers to the unattended installation DVD for installing Windows XP Professional SP2 and SP3 on VMware ESX 3.5. Next, during the textmode setup, you have to press the F6 button to load them. When installing a virtual Windows XP machine on VMware ESX its irritating that you have to create a (virtual) floppy/CD with the right LSI-SCSI drivers.
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pdf file, just send me a request by email: Introduction I you want to recieve this document as a. Below you will find a plain text version of the instruction we wrote for it.
We did a lot of work to make our uanttended installation CD/DVD to work wihich VMware ESX and its works now for us.
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