On Wednesday 13 December 2006 14:46, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:29 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We aquired a powervault 715N NAS server. It is running some form of > > windows (most likely w2k). I don't have the manuals or an install disk. > > It doesn't have a floppy or a cdrom. I'd like to install debian on it and > > make it a samba server for the company. All it has is a serial port, two > > ethernet ports and four hard drives. Any ideas on how I'd get debian > > installed on it? > > Does it send console to the Serial ports? Does it support PXE or Bootp > style of net-booting? > > If it does, then all you need is a proper bootp and tftpd server for it > to boot from the network.
Well, I made progress up to a point. It does have a serial port and the bios supports PXE. So, I copied files from: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/20050317sarge1/images/netboot onto my dhcp/tftp server. I setup my dhcp server like this: host pxeinstall { hardware ethernet 00:c0:9f:06:f4:6d; filename "pxelinux.0"; } Seems like it downloads something off the dhcp server because it spits out a bunch of text in a small column of which the first line contains the Debian copyright, Then it stops. If I hit a key it reboots. If I just wait it will reboot eventually on its own. Any ideas? Thanks, Tom PS: I also tried etch files from here: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/rc1/images/netboot Same scenario as above. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
