Is the sound support still broken? I didn't see a sound driver in the VMWare Tools folder. 5.0.0.13124

I tried to install Windows Vista (new install) but I always get the message:
"Setup was unable to locate attached hard drive suitable
for holding temporary setup files"

I also tried to format the drive with w2k3.
But after continue the Vista installation I get the message above.

I also tried the following without success.
Answer ID 1688 How can I install Microsoft Windows Longhorn build 5048 in a virtual machine?

I use Vmware Workstation 5 with OS-Option Longhorn-experimental.
I tried IDE and SCSI (LSI) driver but I always get this error. The size of drive for Vista is 6 GB.

I know that the DVD Image is correct:
Source: en_longhorn_beta1_dvd.iso
Sectors: 1268876
MD5 Signature: 8e7dd8f00de969ba362293a8192ef177

BTW: The installtion screens are really bad to read.

Any idea what I can do?

goldfinger

I am running VMware 5 on Linux Host:

1. Create a new VM
2. Memory 512MB
3. Hard Disk (IED 0:0) 20GB
4. CD-ROM (IDE 1:0) Pointing to the ISO Image
5. Ethernet 1 "Bridged"

Start VM
1. Boots the DVD
2. When you get to the part where it ask to pick the disk, delete the existing partition.
3. Recreate the partition
4. Exit the install and reboot the VM
5. During the VM BIOS hit F2 then change the boot order to have the CD/DVD be the first boot device
6. Save and Exit the BIOS
7. When you get to the part where it ask to pick the disk again, highlight then choose format
8. Now select again then choose install
9. It will now start the installation process
10. After a couple of reboots (after the first reboot, please change VMWare BIOS, the CD/DVD-ROM should now be the 3rd device) and 45 minutes later (depending on your host machine), the install will be done .
11. You are now logged in but no network, video, and sound
12. Install the VMware tools to get the video going
13. After VMWare Tools reboot and the video will be better
14. Still no network or sound, activate the VMware tools so the VM can see the tools on drive D:
15. Goto Device manager, right click the ethernet controller, go to properties, then reinstall the driver.
16. During the reinstall it search the CD-ROM (vmware tools) for the right network driver.
17. You should now have network and able to surf the Internet with IE 7, but still no sound
18. Surf to www.soundblaster.com
19. select drivers from the right bottom panel
20. then North America/United States/English then Go
21 then choose Sound Blaster/Other/16PCI then click Next
22. Choose English/Windows XP/Drivers then Go
23. Download the "Driver release for SB PCI 128 Vibra / PCI 16"
24. Run the installer then reboot and viola you should have sound.

Hope all of this help you guys out.

Message was edited by: lpsi2000

Message was edited by: lpsi2000

Thanks lpsi2000 I figured the install out myself thanks to you though I now have sound and networking !

When I read the readme file it said that Vista will not install on a non partitioned disk

When you get to the main screen you can select "Shift F10" and that will get you a command shell. You will be in the sources directory and you need to back out to the main drive and go to \windows\system32 and run diskpart.exe

This will allow you to create a primary partition on the drive. You just then exit out of diskpart when done and then exit the command shell.

Continue the setup as normally. If you don't know how to use diskpart, the type "?" at the diskpart prompt to get all of the options.

NOTE: You will want to do a LIST to find the drive, SELECT to focus on the drive and CREATE PRIMARY PARTITION to create the new partition.

Good Luck

It's OK jmcmike I hear you. I can't get the vmxnet nic drivers to work either. I'm using a vmware esx host v2.5.1 with vmware tools installed. Just a yellow exclamation mark and even if I point to the vmware tools cd drivers path it still doesn't work.

is there a fix for this yet?

I'm trying to install the NIC in Longhorn beta1 on VMWare workstation 4.52 and same problem!

the actual error when trying to manually load the driver is:

"A problem was encountered while attempting to add the driver to the store"

This fix worked great for me, many thanks!