[THIN] Trouble replicating MPS3 on W2K3

  • From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:47:46 +0100

I'm in the process of setting up our new MPS3 farm, running on 10 Dell
PE1855MC blades. the first server is (or was) setup exactly the way I want
it and ready for replication. I disabled the IMA service, edited the machine
name out of MF20.DSN and ran sysprep. All good so far. I removed one of the
mirrored hard drives, installed a blank one and restarted the server. I ran
through the mini-setup but just before the end (half way through
"Registering Components") the server rebooted and started the mini-setup
again. After a few laps of this particular race track I removed the second
hard drive again. This time the mini-setup completed properly but after a
reboot I am informed that m:\program files\citrix\ctxgina.dll (or something
similar) could not be loaded. It appears that my drive letters have reverted
from M: to C:, according to the refresh install of W2K3 that I'm currently
doing.

I thought the combination of sysprep and hardware RAID would maintain my
drive letters, particularly since the drive in question hasn't even been out
of the source server!

The real query is, once I've reinstalled W2K3 will I be able to uninstall
MPS3, change my drive letters again and reinstall MPS3? All my apps were
installed while the system drive was M: so hopefully once it's M: again
they'll still work.

Or am I clutching at straws and staring down the barrel of another 2 weeks
configuration work to get going again?

Once things are back in shape, should I simply disable IMA etc and mirror
the drive as-is, without using Sysprep. I've used that method successfully
with MF1.8 and XP but I wanted to do it "properly" this time.

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