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[leco]

I am about to embark on a journey of discovery and have fallen at the first stile

The story so far ....

• Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 - following some articles from Technet amongst others
  Exchange 2003 is on a physical W2k3 server
  Exchange 2010 is to go on a virtual W2k10 R2 server
  I have the ISO for Exchange 2010 and need to set some command switches on the setup.exe file (I think that's what it says)
  I am doing all this remotely

Now my questions
- I assume that I need to burn the ISO to disc before I can set the switches?
- if I do then how can I burn the ISO to an ordinary folder, rather than a physical disc in the DVD/RW drive?

Is there an obvious way to do this that I'm not seeing?

[RabbieBurns]

you can mount an iso using daemon tools lite or such. I use VirtualCloneDrive I think by Elaborate Bytes which is free

[leco]

you can mount an iso using daemon tools lite or such. I use VirtualCloneDrive I think by Elaborate Bytes which is free

Thanks, do you have links to those by any chance?

[RabbieBurns]

http://www.disk-tools.com/request?p=...e4356-0091.exe

[leco]

Link brings me back to this thread - is that right?

[RabbieBurns]

maybe it didnt like direct linking

try this:


Disk-Tools.com - Published Software Download

[leco]

Thanks that's worked

[RabbieBurns]

No worries. Its pretty easy to use. Just right click on the CD icon in the taskbar, select mount Image, browse to the .iso and it will mount it as a CD-Drive in My Computer

[leco]

OK but will it be a writable disc or will I need to transfer all the files to the hard drive?

[RabbieBurns]

No it will be just like a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM

Why would you need to write to it?

If you need to run setup.exe with switches, just click start->Run-> type "e:\setup.exe /flag1 /flag2"

[leco]

Oh I thought that the switches would be added to the setup.exe file - hence the write to disc question. (can you tell I haven't done this before?)

[RabbieBurns]

switches are just runtime parameters added to the command, you dont need to physically change the file.

Its liike doing DIR /P

The command is DIR to show the directorly listing. The /P just splits it up into page at a time view

[DrCheese]

If you ever just want to extract an iso, you can do so with 7zip. It extracts it to a folder like Winzip.

[leco]

switches are just runtime parameters added to the command, you dont need to physically change the file.

Its liike doing DIR /P

The command is DIR to show the directorly listing. The /P just splits it up into page at a time view

So they have to be typed in just before the actual setup.exe is run or are they somehow saved for execution when called for?

[RabbieBurns]

instead of just double ckicking on the setup.exe

you would open up a run box ( Start -> Run)

then put setup.exe /switch1 /switch2 /switch3 etc

What is the switches that its saying you need to run?