Exchange 2003 Installation just does nothing

[sean]

I have just installed a new proxmox 2 box and created my first 2003 r2 server (32bit) onto which I wish to load exchange 2003 standard. I am trying to use the iso image off technet to install exchange but when I try and run setup it just sits in task manager and nothing happens on screen. When I try and run it on a vmware environment it is fine, starts extracting files and begins. I tried copying the files locally but the same problem. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening and how to get around it?

 

[hotwired007]

there seems to be an issue sometimes with MS iso's... try burning it to a CD and using the physical server drive...

 

[sean]

there seems to be an issue sometimes with MS iso's... try burning it to a CD and using the physical server drive...

Thanks it is a good idea but I am now stuck in that I cannot seem to add th physical cd rom drive. I get an error when trying to add the cd rom - image '/cdrom' does not exists (500)

Any further ideas appreciated.

 

[tom]

Thanks it is a good idea but I am now stuck in that I cannot seem to add th physical cd rom drive. I get an error when trying to add the cd rom - image '/cdrom' does not exists (500)

Any further ideas appreciated.

looks like you hit an already fixed bug, update to latest version and try again. btw, you posted in the wrong forum, I moved the thread to the Proxmox VE 2.0 beta forum.

 

[sean]

looks like you hit an already fixed bug, update to latest version and try again. btw, you posted in the wrong forum, I moved the thread to the Proxmox VE 2.0 beta forum.

Thanks but I do not see a newer version available, I only downloaded days ago and am using proxmox-ve_2.0-8d4f53a0-20.iso - please let me know where I might find a newer version if there is one?

 

[tom]

the ISO never contains the latest version, you need to run the following commands:

aptitude update

aptitude full-upgrade

and check afterwards your detailed packages with:

pveversion -v

see my list:

pveversion -v


pve-manager: 2.0-35 (pve-manager/2.0/d07f49c3)
running kernel: 2.6.32-7-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 2.0-60
pve-kernel-2.6.32-7-pve: 2.6.32-60
lvm2: 2.02.88-2pve1
clvm: 2.02.88-2pve1
corosync-pve: 1.4.1-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-2
libqb: 0.10.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.1.8-3
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-3
fence-agents-pve: 3.1.7-1
pve-cluster: 1.0-23
qemu-server: 2.0-20
pve-firmware: 1.0-15
libpve-common-perl: 1.0-15
libpve-access-control: 1.0-16
libpve-storage-perl: 2.0-12
vncterm: 1.0-2
vzctl: 3.0.30-2pve1
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.12-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.0-4
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1

 

[sean]

Thanks Tom that worked and I can now connect the CD-Rom but still no luck in running the exchange 2003 Iso image from technet. Anyone else have any ideas I am open to trying them!

 

[tom]

Post in a MS forum, I doubt that this is a Proxmox VE issue. Just to note, a lot of people run Exchange on Proxmox VE with success.

 

[hotwired007]

have you tried redownloading the image? it wouldnt be the first time ive had an ISO corrupt on a download...

 

[sean]

have you tried redownloading the image? it wouldnt be the first time ive had an ISO corrupt on a download...

Yes I have tried that, but odd thing is that it works fine on a direct server 2003 install and it also works fine on a vmware install with a 2003 server virtual machine. In proxmox it reads the cd image and I can open the autoplay exchange install requirements setup file fine but when I try and run the \setup\I386\setup.exe to actually install exchange it just shows setup.exe in task manager but nothing happens.

I also tried to use virtualclone on another machine and it worked fine but when I try the same thing in the proxmox vm I get the same non responsive result which brought me to the conclusion it might be proxmox related.

 

[tom]

Just a note, exchange 2003 is quite outdated, for all details see http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=1773

 

[willy1009]

i try to do exactly the same thing and i have the same problem. So i tried with vmware virtualisation and iso works correctly.

So i think it's pve related

Fo more information, few months ago with proxmox 2 beta exchange 2003 installation work perfectly. Today with RC1 i can't install it.

PS : i got some errors an windows event under windows server 2003 R2, i think it's pve related because with vmware no problem.

 

[tom]

yesterday I just installed for fun a win2003 with exchange 2003 (32-bit) on 2.0 rc1 - no issues, up and running with all updates in under 2 hours.

 

[willy1009]

what's your vm configuration ?

 

[willy1009]

please tom could you give me your vm conf file