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Can't install Windows Server 2008 r2
Says can't install on the system, even though it meets the requirements. Using an ISO image, exact error is; The image file is valid.... but is for a machine type other than the current machine.
Current OS is Microsoft Server 2003 SP2 Standard Edition 32-Bit
Hardware is an HP Proliant ML310 G5
Intel XEON CPU 3075 @ 2.66 GHz
3.37GB RAM
39gb of space on C:\ drive
Current OS is Microsoft Server 2003 SP2 Standard Edition 32-Bit
Hardware is an HP Proliant ML310 G5
Intel XEON CPU 3075 @ 2.66 GHz
3.37GB RAM
39gb of space on C:\ drive
hindsight
Are you using an upgrade ISO image or a full install ISO image? Verify the architecture of the ISO image and the architecture of the physical box that will have the Windows Server 2008 install.
What are you installing to? A VM? Virtual Server? Are you booting off the ISO image somehow?
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I am installing this from the full blown iso image which I downloaded from Microsoft's licensing site.
Tried the 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, So am now trying the generic 2008 R2 without the Service Pack.
Tried the 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, So am now trying the generic 2008 R2 without the Service Pack.
You're not answering my question. I asked what you're installing TO, not FROM. A VM? physical hardware? Did you BURN the ISO image to DVD, create a bootable flash drive from it? What?
From what I've gathered, the G5 is LIKELY 64 bit (though I thought I remembered having an issue with a G5 at another client... might have been a G4... not sure. IF IT IS, then the error you're getting doesn't make sense... UNLESS you're installing to a VM on the 2003 install of the G5. PLEASE CLARIFY
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Used ISO Recorder software for this disk copy instead of CD Burner, that also may have been part of the problem.