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I'm installing onto a Windows 7 x64 VM(virtual machine). ISTA-D(Rheingold) had been set up well (no problems). Then to make a separate VM for ISTA-P, I just made a copy of the ISTA-D VM, deleted the ISTA-D folder to save space (leaving all other system preparation installations in tact), and proceeded with the ISTA-P install.

But when I ran the ISTA-P installer, I got the following ISTA/P Setup error:

"The installation prerequisites for ISTA/P are not met. Installation is not possible. Further information can be found in the ISPI Next Planning Guide."

What am I missing?

How much memory and free hard disk space are you allocating?

Minimum spec for memory is 2gb and free disk space 180GB if I remember correctly

Update:
Thanks to member An163's post(#4) in:
http://cartechnology.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=7233

I think I found a solution - as intallation is in progress!

I have been trying to install on a VM(virtual machine):
- Win7 x64
- 2GB memory (for VM 'guest' system)
- 182GB free of 250GB virtual disk space

The 'host' system, a MacBook Air:
- i5 CPU @ 1.7GHz
- 256GB SSD - but only 130GB free hardware disk space (not enough for ISTA-P).

So I have been trying to setup the ISTA-P VM on an external USB drive. Yes, it's doable.

I used SuperOrca to open the original installer (BMW_ISPI_ISTA-P_SYS_3.58.0.500.msi).

In my case the hardware limitation categories that were clashing with the original installer's requirements were:
1. Memory 2GB versus the installer's 3GB requirement.
2. CPU Speed 1.7GHz versus the installer's 3.5GHz requirement.

Therefore, my solution was to edit (the msi file) as follows:

Edit ISTA-P installer MSI file (BMW_ISPI_ISTA-P_SYS_3.58.0.500.msi) using SuperOrca:
1. Edit 'MIN_MEMORY' from "3000" to "2000"
2. Edit 'MIN_CPU_CLOCK' from "3500" to "1700"
3. Edit 'SecureCustomProperties' from
"CHECKBOX_AUTO_UPDATE;INSTALL_MODE;NETFRAMEWORK35;PREVIOUSVERSIONFOUND"
to
"INSTALL_MODE;NETFRAMEWORK35;PREVIOUSVERSIONFOUND"
(deleted "CHECKBOX_AUTO_UPDATE;")

Now ISTA-P is installing - 5 hours and counting, but at the final stage of 5 install stages. Hopefully it will complete without further issues.

Update: Installation completed after a little more than 6 hours, but this long duration may be due to installing onto a VM and on an external USB drive.
Now just need to do final check connected to car. - (Update: Works!)

[Updating to 3.58.1.003]
I was getting the installation(update) aborting(failure) issue, and the only way I could get it to update was to do a clean reinstall of 3.58.0.500 then updating to 3.58.1.003 directly WITHOUT OPENING 3.58.0.500.