Pretty sure you can't instal any windows to a removable drive aka USB* I will be experimenting this weekend myself.
* note, excludes Windows 8 To Go and Windows PE doesn't count. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rick Berry <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a lab PE R900 that used to run ESXi 4.x off a USB stick with > 8x146GB SAS drives on a single virtual disk ... tried to pave it and just > redo it as a layer 1 Hyper-V 2012 server booting from the ISO to install, > and it doesn't like the RAID partition regardless of how I present it? > Completely doesn't see the USB stick at all, 32GB puppy. BIOS is up to > date. > > It sees the correct size, but regardless of it being blank or formatted > (or set primary or whatever other DISKPART things I've tried) it doesn't > want to install on it. > > Nor does it wish to see the USB stick as a install target like ESXi does. > > I googled around, didn't really see much to guide me but I may be > completely missing the point (never did mess around with the prior version > of Hyper-V as a straight hypervisor install like ESXi) ... so assuming I'm > missing something basic and embarrassingly stupid like "you can't install > it onto a PERC array directly". Or maybe I'm mistaken in another > assumption about layer 1 installation of hyperv 2012 along the chain ... > > I'm going to venture to guess that the USB stick is not an option like it > would be for ESXi? > > Rick > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
