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Copper Contributor

Apr 11, 2018

Unable to boot to installer

I have just started a new job and I have convinced my boss to let me install the 2019 preview to demonstrate Proof-of-Concept for WSUS and WDS before making them part of our process. I'm using tower...

Installation

Jeff-Woolsey

Microsoft

May 01, 2018

Hmm. This sounds like corrupt DVDs.

A guess: When you burnt the DVDs for Windows Server 2016 and 2019 did you use Dual Layer DVDs? WS2016/2019 don't fit on a standard 4.7 GB DVD. (Windows 10 does fit on a standard DVD.) Your burning software should have caught this.

Otherwise, download the image again and reburn the DVDs.

Radu Ilie

Brass Contributor

May 03, 2018

Windows Server 2019 LTSC all preview buils were small enough to fit into a regular DVD, not a dual layer DVD, unlike Windows Server 2016. I had tried to use an USB pen drive to get the installer for WS 2016, but it failed, since Fat32 could fit the larger then 4 gb install.wim file. I hope that the RTM WS 2019 LTSC will fit into a regular, non-dual layer, DVD, or at least the preview builds until then.