Windows 2000 Installation Error

[JS]

Hello,

I am using VMWare Worstation 4.0 on Windows Professional host and 128 RAM.
When installing a guest Windows 2000 system I receive the following error:
"Operation on file "C:\win2kserver-flat" failed (Insufficient quota to
complete the requested service).
Pressing Retry will attempt the operation again. Pressing Abort will
terminate this session.
Pressing Continue will forward the error to the guest operating system."

Is this because the system needs more than 128 RAM or is there a workaround
for this.

Regards

[KATO Kenji]

JS wrote on Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:32:37 +0200
in article <b8t34s$j6p$1...@london.vmware.com>:

>I am using VMWare Worstation 4.0 on Windows Professional host and 128 RAM.

I suppose you mean Win *2000* Pro host and 128 *MB* RAM, right?

>When installing a guest Windows 2000 system I receive the following error:
>"Operation on file "C:\win2kserver-flat" failed (Insufficient quota to
>complete the requested service).

I suspect that the cause of this perticular problem is lack of disk space.
How much free disk space do you have on your host?

>Is this because the system needs more than 128 RAM or is there a workaround
>for this.

Like I said I don't think this has any thing to do with the amount of RAM
however I do think 128MB is way too small to run VMware *AND* Win2K
host *AND* Win2K guest comfortablly.
You should consider adding some more.

--
Ken

[David Veatch]

"JS" <som...@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<b8t34s$j6p$1...@london.vmware.com>...

> Is this because the system needs more than 128 RAM or is there a workaround
> for this.

In my experience, this has been a RAM issue. You and I are trying
very similar things here... I installed Windows 2000 Server as a guest
under Windows 2000 Professional, though I have 256MB RAM. I received
similar errors, but was able to successfully "Retry" after unloading
several of the resident System Tray applications (InstallRite,
MSOffice, Mozilla Quick Start, etc...).

I know it wasn't quotas, as they weren't enabled, and I had 27GB free
on a 40GB drive.

I would guess that 128MB RAM, as the other poster stated, simply isn't
enough. It's barely enough for 2K Pro, much less 2K Pro with 2K
Server running within it. I do, however, think it's a RAM issue.
That's what my problem was, anyway.

Cheers