Proliant 1000 pains in the butt

[Frans Schreuder]

Hai,   Still trying to get that thing working my way......   Trying to be as complete as possible. Proliant 1000 Pentium 60 :-) 128MB ram 5x4.3GB Fast wide scsi2 (?) on a smart array-2 compaq controller 1x1.05 Seagate .....scsi on the onboard controller 1x CDrom on the onboard controller. 2x tokenring-cards (don't know how to use them though) 1x ISA NE2000.   I have installed the SoftPaQs for Dos. I can boot from both controllers into dos. But I can't get the CD-rom to work.........   Here's my config.sys: DEVICE=smartscsi.SYS /D:MSCD000 device=fsw2aspi.sys device=fws2cd.sys device=fws2disk.sys   And my autoexec.bat: MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /L:E   Please bear with me for I DOS not know ;-)   Somebody suggested to use the bootfloppies, the compact-flavour, but that does not find either scsi-controller/harddisk/cdrom.   Trying to do it the loadlin-way, got me to the root.bin file, that I cannot get on a floppy. Thus blocking that road.   I even went on compiling a kernel with everything that smells scsi in it. bzImage reported an error on it being to big. But with just the smart array and all the ram stuff in the kernel, it wouldn't see the controllers either.(on bootflop).   Does anybody have some enlightning suggestions or pointers so that I need not learn anything (although I did a lot lately).   And again thank you for your patience. Regards, Frans Schreuder.