Vista beta 2 installation troubles

Published 28 May 6 12:8 PM | Ramon Smits
I downloaded the beta 2 iso of Vista and wanted it to install today. So I configured a new virtual machine in vmware and thought 8GB would be enough for installation. I booted the iso and did the usual installation stuff. But then the following message appeared:

"Setup was unable to locate a locally attached hard drive suitable for holding temporary Setup files".

WTF? My first thought was that Vista didn't like the vmware scsi setup so reconfirured it with an ide setup but I got the same message. Then my eyes saw a nice message at the partition selection screen that said "8.1GB is recommended". So it seemed that Vista beta 2 needs at least that amount of storage for installation. I reconfigured the virtual machine again and gave it 16GB to play with and now it is installing! Hooray!.

But guess what? The message that said "8.1GB recommended" didn't appear this time.

I just hope that Vista will run a bit under vmware. I'll know after about an hour I think.....

Comments

# Lennard said on May 29, 2006 4:08 AM:

I think i will run, but slowly.

the feb2006 ctp got a bad rating
http://lannerd.nl/archives/17

# Stephan Dekker said on May 29, 2006 11:35 PM:

Ramon,

I a'm also heving problems with Vista. But I'm doing Virtual Server 2005. I've not found the time to look into it. Vista doesn't think there are any harddisks available (IDE). Maybe i will also try the SCSI interface when I get around to it.

BTW. Is it running now on VMWare?

# Tom said on June 19, 2006 9:35 AM:

yep same for me. first it says 8Gb now 16Gb.