04 February 2007

Minimum RAM size needed to run WinPE through PXE in DS 6.5?

Since VMWare Workstation 5.51 and DS 6.5SP1 the standard size of 256MB is no longer enough to boot using WIN PE 2005 in a VMWARE.
In this case WINPE boots and get stuck on the black screen with Please Wait... at the bottom.

Increasing to 300MB or higher solves this problem. After the OS is installed you can lower the Memory size if required

The following article descibes the size needed to boot with WINPE : http://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=24672&p=3

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