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Dell PE R310 CANT INSTALL OS ON NEW FRESHY WIPED. CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT?
Installing 2003 for training. and have no clue where to start.
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Installing 2003 for training. and have no clue where to start.
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mmiller53
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December 29th, 2015 21:00
hello
i am new to servers and i am trying to load sever2003 onto a fresh server with no luck. can anyone help me out?
thanks in advance
theflash1932
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December 30th, 2015 09:00
It would be helpful to know where you got stuck.
Why 2003?! Any training will be obsolete and a waste of your time.
Which RAID/storage controller do you have?
How many drives? Size? RAID level?
You will need RAID drivers injected into 2003 in order to see the drives. Use nLiteOS.com for this.
mmiller53
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March 2nd, 2016 17:00
Hello Flash
Anyway you can help me set this up?
theflash1932
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March 2nd, 2016 18:00
Sure. Answer the questions in my previous post. Let me know where you get stuck.
mmiller53
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March 2nd, 2016 19:00
S100 with 2 sas 300gb. 2003 is all i have
For now. I just want to get a os on it
Raid 0 was 1
mmiller53
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March 2nd, 2016 19:00
I tried to use unified config tool but it didnt even list 2003 as a os. I am new to this so i am kinda stuck from beginning
mmiller53
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March 2nd, 2016 20:00
Do i need to unzip the drivers then load to usb?
Admin4U
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March 2nd, 2016 20:00
Download hard drive version of driver.
www.dell.com/.../DriversDetails
Run self extracting file and extract files to a usb key. Insert USB key on R310 Server. Start install , when it says at the bottom of the install press F6 to load drivers, press F6. Browse to files on USB key, finish install.
mmiller53
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March 2nd, 2016 20:00
Do i need to change bios to boot on usb?
theflash1932
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March 2nd, 2016 21:00
Use the link admin gave you for the S100 driver, but you probably won't get the drivers to load from USB ... I would suggest you use nLiteOS.com to integrate the drivers into new installation media.
You can install the evaluation version of Server 2012 R2 for 180 days. What you learn will be much more useful and installing will be easier.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2
If you have two drives in a RAID 0, reconsider. I understand you are learning, but learn this early: never use RAID 0.
2003 is probably too old to be supported by USC/LCC/SMTD. You'll have to install from scratch.
Yes, you must first run the driver file to extract the contents before you can use them, but like I said, create a new CD with the drivers integrated using nLiteOS.com.
mmiller53
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March 3rd, 2016 05:00
So i can run 2012 for 180'days? Can i burn to a disk?
mmiller53
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March 3rd, 2016 05:00
Also there are 6 downloads for that. Which one?
mmiller53
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March 3rd, 2016 07:00
Going to try to load 2012 thru unified config
mmiller53
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March 3rd, 2016 08:00
Ok so no matter what i do i cant get the server to boot to load a os. I get volume 00:000 is resyncing.
Also PXE E61 media test failure
No boot device avalible
mmiller53
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March 3rd, 2016 11:00
Ok i got it installed. However my program needs to use vmware. Can i install vmware on 2012 or is it a reimage of server again?