On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 19:28 -0800, Tom Brown wrote: > On Wednesday 13 December 2006 19:18, Tom Brown wrote: > > 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-i386/2005031 > >7sarge1/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/imag > >es/netboot > > > > Same scenario as above. > > I found the following string in the pxelinux.0 file: > "Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset..." > > So, I know it has downloaded pxelinux.0 and is trying to boot the kernel. Any > ideas on where I can go from here would be appreciated.
I am gonna be honest here and tell you I have never tried to netboot a powervault 715N. I am sure you can find some info about the powervault using Google. I came up with someone doing a similar thing but with CentOS. http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=12 Gonna tell you that Dell may have some answers for your problems. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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