Hi Guys,

Thanks for responding, perhaps I did not make myself clear enough, I
appreciate ISA is an application the issue I am struggling with is to read
the ISO file from other than the CD, What I have been trying to do obviously
incorrectly is by changing the location on the VM to point to the location of
the ISO file rather than creating coasters by writing the ISO files to CD. If
I change the VM Cd setting to point to the location where the application ISO
is the VM machine then fails to boot. Is it possible to load an ISO into the
VM without writing the file to the CD, if so perhaps you can point me in the
correct direction.

Thanks Mike


"Peter Hale" wrote:

> I think he means AutoPlays
>
> Just point the cd drive to the iso file and you should be fine
>
> Pete
>
>
> "Paul Adare" <pkadare@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:lb9s24z79t99$.19bgs54qby84q.dlg@40tude.net...
> > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:17:02 -0800, Mikecl wrote:
> >
> >> I recently downloaded ISA2004 iso from technet site, on my virtual server
> >> I
> >> have tried all ways of getting the machine to install from ISO, I copied
> >> the
> >> iso file locally and put the VS Search Path, I have also burnt it to a CD
> >> but
> >> either way I cant install from an ISO file. If I use the same CD drive
> >> with
> >> the Normal installation cd it boots from there and installs fine. I have
> >> tried changing the boot order on the Virtual Machine but I cant get it to
> >> work either from a local or CD ISO file
> >
> > Umm, ISA, in any version, is an application, not an operating system. You
> > can't boot from the ISO and install it, you need to have a supported OS
> > installed first and then install ISA.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Adare
> > MVP - Virtual Machines
> > http://www.identit.ca
> > A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
>
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