Please specify the operating system CD image?

[K-Dubb]

Hi,

I am trying to install 2008 Standard Server core on a g3 DL380 using Smart Start 8.25 (this is the latest that I can use with this particular G3 due to it being a i686). I have burned an ISO of the OS to DVD, and verified it opens correctly and is a bootable DVD. In the smart start setup, it asks me to:
"Please specify the operating system CD image"
and then opens a browse box to the DVD and it's directories. What file am I supposed to select here? so far everything I have selected including bootmgr has not worked.

Thanks.

[Michael A. McKenney]

Windows 7 has a nice ISO burner. Do it from a workstation.

[K-Dubb]

Hi,

The ISO was burnt from a Windows 7 machine.

[K-Dubb]

I burnt a new ISO. I select boot manager as my CD image and get:

Invalid entry: mount/dvd/bootmgr

Am I selecting the wrong file?

[K-Dubb]

I meant "I select bootmgr as my cd image"

[Johan Guldmyr]

Hey, what if you try to put this in:

/mount/dvd/

Here is a post with a related issue:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ProLiant-Servers-ML-DL-SL/SmartStart-CD-for-Windows-Server-2008/m-p/4150516#M75637

[Jimmy Vance]

not sure I've seen that request from SmartStart before. Using the word "image" it sounds like it's asking for an ISO file.

Have you tried just booting the OS media and doing the installation without SmartStart.

[Michael A. McKenney]

Smart Start works better with 2008 R2 x64. I would try that revision.

[K-Dubb]

I am trying to install server core in case that makes a difference.

It is a 32 bit server. It cannot run 2008 R2. I have tried many of the recommendations in that thread including:
replacing DVD drive
Redownloading Smart Start
Redownloading 2008 ISO
Using /mount/dvd when it asks for an image

Nothing works.

I also noticed that when I try to just install 2008 Server not using smart start, that errors out as well:

The input datafile (hpssbem.ini) could not be found.

[Johan Guldmyr]

Does it have to be 2008?
Might be hard to get that working on this model without the right drivers etc..
Maybe 2008 would work if you run it in a vmware VM?