We have been using our PowerEdge 1750 for sometime now.  The Windows Server 2003 started giving problems a few days back so we decided to reinstall the OS.  So, at computer boot, after pressing Ctrl M we started RAID BIOS configuration utility.  Then we created array/logical drives with two SCSI hard disks of 36 GB each.  We created another array with third SCSI drive.  The logical drives were initialized.  Then we boot up with Server Assistant CD in the CD drive.  Everything goes well, until we reach the stage where the server assistant cd boots and shows "Server Assistant is now starting.."  After 2 minutes we start getting all kinds of messages on the screen like umount....... dconfig:/mnt/stage4/usr/x11r6/lib/libfreetype.so.6 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start...... Unsupported system detected.....Press enter to reboot system..

 

We have tried to configure and intialize the logical drives several times.  Once we did get lucky and the OS copying started but then it did not go through all the way, so we had to reboot. 

 

Please help us out as we have lost 5 days trying to reinstall the OS. 

 

In the past we had run Server Assistant Cd without any problem to reinstall Windows 2003 OS.

 

Any assistance will be highly appreciated.

 

regards,

Dapper