I managed to get the whole process installed once. The first time i ran though this process it got up to installing the bios and i got the screen that said place your os CD in the drive and restart. I thoght great i have done it but i could not boot form my win 2k3 cd. When the CD was not...
ok i have tried selecting windows 2000 form the os install list and now thats doing the same thing. It creates the smart array on the disk. Goes to restart trying to install the bios and then i get non boot disk errors. I have taken a step backwards since I have started. Now i cant even seem to...
ok i really dont get this... when i go to other OS as an option everything works fine untill the system restarts after creating the partition on the smartarray. After this it restarts and all i get is non boot disk errors. As the bios has not been installed i cant change the boot order yet and i...
yes i went though that install. I just tryed selecting other form the list of os's and i keept getting non book disk errors. Do you select other as the OS you wish to instlal when installing 2003 server?
ok.... smart start cd works fine. The Bios is installed and the deisk partitions are set up. I went to boot to my win 2k3 cd and i got a non system disk boot error. Humm not to worry i went in to the bios and changed the boot order to look at the cd first. Still the same result. What am i doing...
ok thanks guys I will have another go at it later today and report back if i have any trouble. Once I get the win server 2k3 install working i should not have any trouble.
sorry another post from me...
I have got the smart start utils on cd but the server does not boot to cd it boots to the SCSI drive. At this point i would normally go in to bios and change the boot order but as i understand it the bios has not yet been created. How can i force the server to boot...
hey thanks a lot TheLad. Downloading now as I type this. I am new to these kind of servers and i did not know that bios had to be installed. Something i dont understand... Currenlty i have one 9gb SCSI drive in and 3 empty SCSI bays. Will i be able to run this drive as the main partition and add...
here is the server i am now an owner of
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There is one 9gb drive in the server. When i turn it on i get the "f1" to continue or "f10" to set up partitons.
Both give me a...
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