Hello everyone:

I am a newbie to Altiris and a novice building Windows.  I am familiar with the IBM TPMfOSd and RDM products and am trying to draw on my experiences there but not coming up with any solutions there.  I searched on the symantec and VMWare forums to see if anybody had resolved this issue and have found some sparse references to the same issue but can't seem to find the solution.  Here are the details of my set up:

• I have Deployment Solution 6.9 installed on a guest VM.  PXE and DHCP servers also run on the machine
• Set up a WinPE2.1 boot image for clients to point back at this instance.
• Create a generic scripted install job for Windows 2003 EE with a license key and took the defaults on all of items for the unattended.txt file.

With this set up, I am able to boot another VM up, connect to the Altiris server, boot form the WinPE image, and then subsequently run the scripted OS install job on it.  However, when it gets to the point of building it, it basically tells me that ther are no valid partitions (I read that as hard drives) to format.  I tried this with both SCSI and IDE drives.

Can anyone share with me their experience with this issue, and if there are any whitepapers/topics resolving it?

Thanks,
Nelson