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On Monday 12 September 2005 03:12 pm, Covington, Chris wrote: |
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> >I have a Compaq Proliant 3000, w 6 18.2 SCSI disks I am building for a |
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> >file server for my department. I have installed an IDE HD 40gig to hold |
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> >the OS so as to reserve all the SCSI space for data. Problem is after |
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> >installing twice and messing around I find that the firmware in teh |
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> >3000's was not designed to support IDE HD's. I can install to it, I |
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> >assume it is that it just won't boot to it. How do I build a floppy to |
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> >just get the boot process tarted then look to teh HD for kernel and os? |
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> >Does this make any sense to anyone? |
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> Why don't you install the MBR on one of the SCSI disks and keep the O/S |
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> & boot partition on the IDE drive? |
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Guess I could, just wanted to keep the SCSI's clean for data only... |
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What I would like is to be able to move teh MBR to a floppy? or CD?? |
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