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| wbafrank 2002-04-22, 9:25 am |
|  And today's poser is ....
Q81. When you try to install Windows 2000 Professional from a Remote Installation Services (RIS) image, you may receive the error message:
Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer. To continue, Setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this upgrade product.
Please insert your Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 95, or Windows 98 CD into your CD-ROM drive. When the CD is in the drive, press ENTER. To quit Setup, press F3.
If you insert a CD that contains one of the listed operating systems and then press ENTER, you may receive the following additional error message:
Setup cannot format the partition.
Your computer may not have enough memory to perform this operation, or your Windows 2000 CD may contain some corrupted files.
Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3.
What is the most likely cause of this error?
A. You do not have a previous version of Windows installed on your computer.
B. You are using MSDN media that is intended for testing and development purposes only.
C. You are not qualified to upgrade the product and need to get the administrator to give you the appropriate user rights.
D. You need to check that all hardware is on the HAL.
Good Luck .... see you tomorrow for the answer!! | |
| Teck Shark 2002-04-22, 9:47 am |
| The correct answer is B! | |
| mrfixit 2002-04-22, 9:52 am |
| Agree. B! | |
| NetChild1985 2002-04-22, 11:44 am |
| Yeah, "B" is correct! | |
| TxBear 2002-04-22, 12:13 pm |
| Going with the gang on this one B  | |
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| MSDN: Diagnostic...OK :B
I don't see an other reason..!
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| robertmillar 2002-04-22, 2:01 pm |
| B | |
| dillinger 2002-04-22, 2:47 pm |
| It's gotta B. | |
| mcdoud 2002-04-22, 4:00 pm |
| ...I think it is D. | |
| Sherry 2002-04-22, 6:39 pm |
| B seems to be the popular choice, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "A". | |
| wbafrank 2002-04-23, 11:50 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by wbafrank
And today's poser is ....
Q81. When you try to install Windows 2000 Professional from a Remote Installation Services (RIS) image, you may receive the error message:
Setup cannot find a previous version of Windows installed on your computer. To continue, Setup needs to verify that you qualify to use this upgrade product.
Please insert your Windows NT 3.51 Workstation, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 95, or Windows 98 CD into your CD-ROM drive. When the CD is in the drive, press ENTER. To quit Setup, press F3.
If you insert a CD that contains one of the listed operating systems and then press ENTER, you may receive the following additional error message:
Setup cannot format the partition.
Your computer may not have enough memory to perform this operation, or your Windows 2000 CD may contain some corrupted files.
Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3.
What is the most likely cause of this error?
A. You do not have a previous version of Windows installed on your computer.
B. You are using MSDN media that is intended for testing and development purposes only.
C. You are not qualified to upgrade the product and need to get the administrator to give you the appropriate user rights.
D. You need to check that all hardware is on the HAL.
Good Luck .... see you tomorrow for the answer!!
And the answer is ....
Correct Answers: B
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because the Windows 2000 Professional image on the RIS server was created from Microsoft MSDN media that contains multiple versions of the Windows 2000 operating system. The Windows 2000 Professional version on the MSDN media contains a Txtsetup.sif file with a different value in the "SetupSourcePath" field than the retail versions of Windows 2000 Professional.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, remove the current MSDN CD image on the RIS server and use a retail copy of Windows 2000 Professional to create a new CD-based image.
Note: The MSDN media is intended for testing and developmental purposes only; if RIS is being deployed in a production environment, retail copies of Windows 2000 Server and Professional are required.
MORE INFORMATION
This behavior also occurs with RIPREP images if the RIS server has a MSDN version of Windows 2000 Professional as the CD-based image. | |
| Johnny5Alive 2002-04-23, 2:46 pm |
| Hmm...D? | |
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| mcdoud 2002-04-30, 2:41 pm |
| I chose D also. (Who comes up with these questions, anyway!) |
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