On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:55:09 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: >uh, pxeboot? you can put the CD contents on your pxeboot server and >there's no need to hook up a CD drive. me thinks that's how you're >supposed to do it for headless machines. > >have had the same bad magic errors in the past when using usb cdrom drives. >
Uhh, pxeboot? It MIGHT work if it was in the BIOS but it is not. The local distributor has just got a copy of an update which he has promised to test and to forward to me if it works. To do the first install I pulled the card out of the 1U case, stripped the plank off an fxp PCI card and installed from my pxe server. I'm not doing that on a regular basis and in the field I don't have pxe servers on tap anyway. I have installed from the USB CD since but, as I said, it depends on typing in the console switching line blindly at the boot> prompt. I can't expect junior admins to do that at customer sites and get it right first time every time with a customer looking on. Thanks, Rod/ >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
