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Using an ISO image instead of a CD drive
Whilst I was on the VMWare site looking for the exact command line parameters to use in a custom shortcut for Server01, I came across the marvellous idea to create an ISO file from a CD-ROM and mount that ISO file as a virtual disk in a virtual machine.
That would allow me to do all kinds of install without having to even have the Windwos Server 2003 CD available, or even the drive.
What's more, the transfer of files at installation time is likely to go a lot faster than when reading from an external device.